Difficult to spell... easy to draw

This morning we left Turtle Mountain Provincial Park and passed through Boissevain, the nearest town. As a connection to the park, the town has adopted as its symbol an 28-ft. statue known as Tommy Turtle.

The drive through Manitoba was through rolling countryside.

Very green field.

Nice farms.

We kept looking for the oil fields that we had heard dominate the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. As we approached Virden, MB, which is described as having 1,200 oil wells dotting the landscape, we only saw two, corralled wells.

Maybe they keep the oil fields off the Trans-Canada highway because these are the only two wells we saw all day.

We entered Saskatchewan about 1:30 p.m. and immediately gained an hour. We are now back in the Mountain Time Zone after being in the Central for the past 3 days.

Saskatchewan bills itself as being "difficult to spell, but easy to draw" (look at the map of the province - a rectangle).

We didn't quite make it to Regina in the center of southern SK. Indian Head, SK, is 70K to the east.

Probably they would not name a town "Indian Head" in these politically correct times, but there he is.

His left ear does provide a spot for a bird's nest.

SK proclaims that it produces enough wheat to feed the world. I don't know about that, but there sure are some large wheat fields around Indian Head. 

In 1882 the Bell farm was established and an interesting feature was its round barn. This arrangement allowed one man to oversee 24 horses.

Recently rebuilt, portions of the original foundation are nearby.

Walking back into town we noticed this establishment that could have used a few more nails.

Cautionary sign on the road adjacent to the campground.

It's true.