in church on saturday

Sitting around bored on a Saturday with nice weather for a change Saskurbex and I decided to head out into the country and explore same familiar places. On our way we found some things we had never seen before and some that were familiar.

Highlights include:

• giant brick house
• abandoned graves
• seeing an old church we have been to many times during the day for the first time!
• huge statues in a church
  

flooding restrictions

I recently had to travel for my cousins wedding. Since I am not one for weddings I knew that I had to plan exploration while I was visiting. Unfortunately I was in the wrong part of the province as most of my favorite places were flooded. I was only able to get to a few locations in the area but did manage to explore on my way back home.

once again more statues in the graveyard -

this time i was taller than one!

abandoned graveyard in a very active city

mummified cat

While exploring on my most recent trip I encountered something I had never seen before, a mummified cat. Just the other day I ran across a show called oddities on TV and the man was searching for a mummified cat. Interesting that just days later I encountered one in small town Saskatchewan.

As interesting as it may seem, it is not for everyone. This is not something I usually photograph or enjoy looking at because I am a major animal lover, but I was certainly intrigued by this cat. Why did it die here and and how could it's body preserve itself like this? I also noticed that all the moss growing on the ground, grew around the cat.

school of moss

There seems to be an endless amount of schools in this province. I have seen most of them but it seems just when I finish exploring an area I realize I forgot something - in this case a school. So on this recent trip since I was in the area I decided to check it out. I wouldn't drive out of my way to see it but it was interesting. Most of the school was gutted but its previous life was obvious through magazines and books.

The floors were ripped up and the ceiling torn down. Despite being gutted and having a flooded basement it was full of life. Moss started growing all around the school and was taking over most of the classrooms. I love to see when nature takes over an abandonment.

in the country

Here are some of the photo's taken from driving around the countryside on my way to other destinations.

Some highlights:

• curling in an abandoned rink
• finding old cast iron
• playing shuffleboard
• photographing a fox sitting on the side of the highway
• driving through extremely muddy roads
  

ghost town mash up

These days it seems everyone is fascinated with ghost towns. Most of the time its because these people are pickers but there are people that are just fascinated with the fact that people can leave an entire town, everything in their homes and never return. I have seen many of these towns all over this province so it doesn't surprise me when we visit a town only to find one or no one living there. a

On this recent trip after the great race we headed out to do some more exploring and found a couple ghost towns. I decided to mash them all together into one blog post with my favorite pictures. And yes, even the church with the power was in a ghost town - we find buildings with power on in ghost towns more frequently then one would except.