Mid afternoon Saturday was a time to look at this community as fall is definitely here. More then half of the gardens have already been cleaned up and the trees throughout the town are wearing their Technicolor foliage Low scud tumbled over the town all day long bringing sprinkles and at times steady rain as the temperature continued to decline until it reached 4 degrees by early evening.
This sequence of pictures takes you from highway #3 past McKay Park and the golf course. I paused on the tracks to catch this glimpse of Tisdale looking West from the golf course. The fresh ballast is reflecting the dim light of the afternoon as a steady drizzle dampens everything.
A year ago today the rain that came was welcomed as harvest was over and there was a need for some moisture. But today it is a much different story with much of Saskatchewan only about one third through harvest this precipitation needs to be dried out now so
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the crop can be recovered.Less then seventy percent of Tisdale area crops have been harvested.
But there is no point pouting when you can be putting. The fairways at the golf course are lush even though the trees have changed colour. The conifers provide the sort of constant support all of us need as they stand out declaring their indifference to the changing season. Perhaps golfers are the human equivalent of the evergreen tree. Always ready in whatever adversity to try and make do even if it means by playing by winter rules.
This stand of trees which I have photographed season after season with snow about them, spring floods and now they stand already naked having shed their leaves ready to face another winter.
Below this group of duffers are making their way around the course oblivious to the rain that was falling pretty steady at the time this picture was taken. The second golfing picture is of the same group on looking at them from the North as we look down the fairway toward them.
Over across from the former hospital park I spotted this great display of red leaves in this yard. Fall leaves in Tisdale tend to be a bright green so finding some red ones is a real delight.
Speaking of red, along the creek bank the house below was having a yard sale and I dropped in to see if I could find a wheel barrow but found instead this great display of coloured leaves and the widest assortment of birds. The trees in this yard were completely fluttering with all manner of sparrow and several types of warbler. But there was no wheel barrow but the picture certainly shows I got a bargain.
