Sunday, September 16, 2018
Spirit Sands in Spruce Woods Provincial Park, MB Canada Part 1
The Spirit Sands area of the park gets markedly more precipitation than “real” deserts, it nevertheless has a microclimate that provides a hospitable habitat for cacti and reptiles. Residents include the prairie skink, the only lizard native to the Prairies, and the hognose snake, which uses its flat snout to unearth and eat toads that hide in the sand.
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Old homestead along Hwy 2 West Manitoba, Sept 9/18.
Whenever I photograph abandoned homesteads such as this I marvel at the fortitude and independence of the people who built them and developed the land. My mother's family were one of these pioneers and from her stories I know something of the hardships they suffered. Hardships most of us can't imagine today.
The Devil's Punch Bowl in Spruce Woods Provincial Park, MB September 3/18.
As Wikipedia states: Spruce Woods Provincial Park is located in south-central Manitoba, Canada where the Assiniboine River passes through the delta of sediment left by the last glaciation.[2] An area of open and stabilized sand dunes within the park provides habitat to species of plants and animals not found elsewhere in Manitoba.
As I state ;-) : It's a very special place, and if you go which I recommend, don't even try to keep sand out of your footwear! The oasis-like Devil's Punch Bowl's ice cold water is fed from subterranean springs.
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