Location: Highway 9 Revisited

This series of pictures was started in early June 1999 after a visit with friends in Outlook, Saskatchewan.

Spring had been very late. During the return trip, I remember the weather was particularly volatile. The drive was humid; wet with swift and powerful highway cross-winds. A small funnel cloud appeared and rain pounded the prairie floor.

I stopped the car to absorb the sky’s imagery, threatening and darkened. Blackened green clouds were forced down in rolls across the open scrub and the previous year’s long grass.

The drama and spectacle of wave after wave of cloud shadow and thrashing rain was followed in cycles by blankets of brilliant late afternoon sunlight. Clouds actually glowed to gold. Paynes grey, black and silver foregrounds were stretched in all directions.

The earth was drenched. This series was born from that experience.