Canadian Prairies

Yesterday I cruised straight north from Drumheller toward Edmonton. The countryside was rolling prairie all the way, but with increasing patches of woods and hundreds of small lakes, probably gouged out by chunks of ice left by retreating glaciers at the end of the most recent Ice Age. With a few lakes on every farm, frozen several months of the year, it's easy to see why Canada has produced so many great hockey players! Here are a couple of old, restored grain elevators in the town of Stettler, about halfway between Calgary and Edmonton.