2005_1396 Moose On the Prairie
We've had a strange series of power outages over the past week... the power has blown four or five times, more than usually happens in a year. Is the system stressed due to impact of the virus on the work force? No one seems to know. We always assume that some farmer has run his machinery into a pole, but the power company has been known to blame beavers. Two evenings ago the farmers and beavers must have colluded once again; I had to haul my camp stove up from the basement to finish cooking supper. Another evening, the power blew out just after supper. Unable to watch a movie, use my computer, or play my guitar (at the volume to which I am accustomed, haha), I decided to take a drive to the park and see what I could see...
It turned out to be fairly productive: some good landscape light, innumerable mule deer, three moose, and three porcupines. Not bad for an improvised outing. This cow Moose was the last of the three, and the closest: she crossed the road in front of me and trotted across a field, then stopped in front of a prairie hill that the last rays of the day had turned a rich sunset pink.
I got home just before 10 pm, the sky not yet fully dark. The power was back on.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
2005_1396 Moose On the Prairie
We've had a strange series of power outages over the past week... the power has blown four or five times, more than usually happens in a year. Is the system stressed due to impact of the virus on the work force? No one seems to know. We always assume that some farmer has run his machinery into a pole, but the power company has been known to blame beavers. Two evenings ago the farmers and beavers must have colluded once again; I had to haul my camp stove up from the basement to finish cooking supper. Another evening, the power blew out just after supper. Unable to watch a movie, use my computer, or play my guitar (at the volume to which I am accustomed, haha), I decided to take a drive to the park and see what I could see...
It turned out to be fairly productive: some good landscape light, innumerable mule deer, three moose, and three porcupines. Not bad for an improvised outing. This cow Moose was the last of the three, and the closest: she crossed the road in front of me and trotted across a field, then stopped in front of a prairie hill that the last rays of the day had turned a rich sunset pink.
I got home just before 10 pm, the sky not yet fully dark. The power was back on.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.