At the market

Check-out 

You have to enlarge to see that it says 'Bonjour' on the LCD. Everything is in French and English especially the closer you get to Quebec. Quebec wanted to secede from Canada at one time ya know. I really wanted to see Quebec and meet some people there.

Canadians like fresh bread

Baked daily 

It was easy to find home baked fresh bread in Canada. It's delicious! The few times I've baked bread it was so heavy but this bread is light. Now were back in the states and back to our usual Home Pride brand of bread. It used to be my favorite and now...it's just so-so. We will miss daily fresh bread in Canada.

Canola and sunflower oil

Oils 

I didn't buy any but they look delicous for your hair! (I use avocado oil for hair and skin.) All these years I've thought canola was corn. Canola isn't corn at all. Canola is rapeseed. It's a major crop grown in southern Saskatchewan. We passed miles and miles of canola. Its yellow blossoms blanketed the earth. If you've never seen such a sight before it's striking. I'm sure the Saskatchewans find it ho-hum though!

Beatrice milk

Beatrice milk 

Beatrice is the major milk company in Canada. They sell three kinds: 0.1%, 3%, and one in between that I think is the 2%. They sell bags of milk too. We didn't buy bags because our fridge is small and we weren't sure how a bag of milk would be stored and used. We didn't understand the packaging at first and had to ask for whole milk but the 3% is the whole milk.

Blueberries

Blueberries 

At home in Southern California if you buy blueberries they are piddly small little things and pricey. Up in Canada the blueberries were big, and sweet too. To top it off, they're affordable which was a treat.

Pictures askew

Crooked pictures 

I'm into askew and crooked pictures lately. Sky is washed out.

Taken at Waskesiu Lake at Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan. Pronounced "wahs' kuh sue."  The name gets terribly thrashed by everybody who doesn't know how to pronounce it - including us.  Haha!

Red squirrel

Red squirrel 

Doesn't he have the cutest little tummy?

Franklin's ground squirrel

Franklin's ground squirrel 

He's also called a whistle pig for the sound they make, but I'm going to have to listen for that tomorrow. These fellows are bigger than a red squirrel or a 13-lined squirrel. They're diurnal and have sort of a bar pattern on their coat. We have a few running through our campsite so it's not too hard to get a picture of them. I think they're cute.

I'm fond of rodents as long as they're not in my house. We had some mice in our trailer awhile back. Yes, it happened at Heyburn State Park in Idaho. I may have forgotten to write about it. Quite exciting as you can imagine. We caught not one, not two, but three in our kitchen dishes cupboard. Can you say, disgusting?

Oh, anyone up to coming over for dinner?

TransCanadian highway1 

Everything is in French and English 

The Boreal Forest is waiting for YOU! 

Waskesiu Lake at Prince Albert National Park 

Kids learning about bison 

I played a bit of bingo 

Clouds in afternoon 

Canola fields 

Looking at me 

Saskatchewan farmland 

A bird 

Canadian Ding Dongs

Canadian Ding Dongs 

There's got to be a story here. Both products are by Hostess but they have different names and the cakes are slightly different. King Dons have a darker chocolate covering (which I like), less filling, are a little taller, and very soft cake. Delicious. I like both kinds but 'Ding Dongs' is a dumb name and now Canadians eat 'King Dons?' Who came up with that?

They look like undercover Ding Dongs to me. Who knew this existed?!