Saskatchewan Prairies, Canada

This scene is an original illustration set in Saskatchewan Prairies, Canada. It lies in mid-latitudes, where the climate is warm-summer humid continental.

A blazing yellow field in full bloom stretches unbroken to the horizon. A tall wooden grain-elevator tower with a gabled cap stands out in it. The land is table-flat, the evening long, and the sky takes up most of the frame.

Why is the prairie this absolutely flat?

Flatness this absolute over this distance is glacial: an ice sheet planed the ground and left behind a lake-bottom plain. The grain elevator is the local landmark of that geography — grain is trucked short distances to a rail line and lifted for loading, so the towers stand at intervals across otherwise featureless farmland. A long light evening at bloom time places it far north in midsummer.

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