28. PASSAGES. Alice Beach, Saskatchewan. A pack of coyotes resides in the field in the background. They provide a choral performance each evening.

27. PASSAGES. Last Mountain Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. “Hard to be an atheist” is the thought that comes to mind.

26. PASSAGES. Highway 2, near the village of Holdfast, Saskatchewan. Moments after a rainstorm.

25. PASSAGES. Highway 2, near the village of Holdfast, Saskatchewan. If you enjoy light, Saskatchewan ranks with anywhere famous for it (the Mediterranean Sea comes to mind, as does northern Israel). A landscape painters dream.

24. PASSAGES. Saskatoon, Canada. They call it “the land of living skies”. Taken on a lousy cell phone camera, which gives an analog, may one say “painterly” effect? Lo-fi recording devices at times prove the old saw that “style is the art of omission.”

23. PASSAGES. Last Mountain Lake, Canada.

22. PASSAGES. Saskatoon, Canada. One of the great small cities of the world, partly due to its setting (at a place the Cree people called Saskatchewan, or “swift flowing river”).