November 3, 2007
(see also a post of October 8, 2007)
On the road again. It is one of the relatively rare five-day pairings, and not too many folks in our system like them. I’m not an exclusion. But it’s OK, work is work, and still - as I do my bid for the next month I never advise system I would prefer avoiding these pairings.
And a first stop is at Saskatoon again.
Seems like the mood is ‘to take it easy’. So, I won’t go anywhere, and will use pictures from a previous overnight here.
But the aerial shots, however, were taken today: ‘Saskatoon from the bird’s eye view, as of November 3rd, 2007′. (What kind of bird might have a chance to see the city like that? - oh, sure, - the Canadian Goose 
It is just a ‘half-joke’: in this area during birds migrating season flocks of gees fly in the space around at a worrisome proximity. Wonder, if they aslo enjoy the view..
Or, maybe, they are more attracted by a sight of this river, and don’t pay much attention to the ’single, big, noisy birds’ challenging them at times on the ‘right of way’.
OK, when I was here the last time, I got to downtown area (walked down all the way from airport), and explored the city at a closer look.
On the waterfront I did a stretch between two bridges that are nicely shown here. On the right is the Broadway Bridge, and the University Bridge is respectively on the left side of the picture. Here’s a link to Google’s satellite map.
Curious, as always I am , I came over to the bridge to have a closer look at a plaque on its wall.
Look around:
..and under the bridge
Well, it seems ‘under-the-bridge space‘ is always attracting people, - no matter what century you are in, and with no specific regard either this in Paris, or London, or Saskatoon
In fact, the whole waterfront area is a seamless stretch of very nice parks: Friendship Park on one side of the bridge, and the Kiwanis Memorial Park - on the another.
Interestingly enough, next day I browsed a local newspaper, the StarPhoenix,
and in one of the articles I came across another town’s nickname: ‘the City of Bridges‘. Fair enough, they are definitely the city’s conspicuous features. Like in Paris
(to be continued..)
November 4th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Another excellent set of photos. Your view from the air reminds me so much of what Calgary looked like when I first saw it about 50 years ago - compact and with a sharp transition from city to prairie.
Saskatoon looks like a great place to live. Sadly I have not spent any time there over the years.
November 5th, 2007 at 5:54 am
Hello,
Interesting remark.
And She’s growing too.
It is interesting also because living here we can see now how ‘young’ Canada is!
As for Saskatoon, it is said to be the next ‘boom-town’ pretty soon. For good, or for bad, believe it or not
“Sharp transition from city to prairie” - exactly! I even noticed that recently - just abrupt ‘edge’ where all development has reached to. I’ll try to make more sharp pictures showing this.