Tag Archives: spirit sands
Spruce Woods Park Rebounds, Open This Weekend
Reid Dickie In this post a year ago the flooding Assiniboine River had a destructive hold on Spruce Woods Park. Hwy #5 was washed away through the park, campgrounds and buildings were covered with eight feet of water and the … Continue reading
Filed under Birds, Day Tripping, Earth Phenomena, Flood, Natural Places, Sacred Places, spirit sands
2012 Sacred Places Locations
Reid Dickie Now that summer is returning to the prairies, you may be planning personal journeys to some of the Sacred Places I have written about on this blog. Several of the sites are on private land and require … Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Wisdom, Day Tripping, Prairie People, Sacred Places, Saskatchewan, shaman, Spirit
Spruce Woods Park Today
Reid Dickie Last Friday I took a drive out to Spruce Woods Park to see how the little park overwintered. Park workers have cleaned up most of the debris that cluttered the ditches. The plastic and metal grid dams that … Continue reading
Filed under Accommodations, Day Tripping, Flood, Natural Places, Parks, Spirit
Between Shark’s Teeth and Stardust – Full Moon Hike on Spirit Sands
Reid Dickie “Rock medicine is an act of touching the roots of the system of time and history in which we existed and from which our lives have meaning.” - Richard Grossinger Sand is the last remnant of extinct lakes and … Continue reading
Filed under Earth Phenomena, Natural Places, Parks, PRAIRIES, Sacred Places, shaman, shamanism, Soul Building, spirit sands
Spirit Sands Today
Reid Dickie Though I hadn’t planned on a day trip today, the morning broke so lovely and promising my wanderlust kicked in. Warm and sunny, the drive out Hwy #2 was pleasant and fast. One other car waited in the … Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Wisdom, BEAUTY, Earth Phenomena, Linda, Natural Places, Sacred Places, shaman, spirit sands
Spirit Sands Hike
Reid Dickie Today’s hike on Spirit Sands was perfect: warm, windy and sunny all day. Spruce Woods Park is going through its fall changes with the tamarack needles turning yellow along the highway and the final blaze of poison ivy as … Continue reading
Equinox Journey
Reid Dickie The mighty Avenger and I are just back from welcoming in the fall season with an 800 km loop around Manitoba. The weather is way above normal and sunny, perfect days. On Friday morning I headed north out of Winnipeg … Continue reading
Filed under Earth Phenomena, Flood, Manitoba Heritage, Natural Places, Parks, shaman
Acorn Days
Reid Dickie These are the acorn days of summer! The spring was wet and unpredictable, the summer hot and dry, which is the recipe for great acorns as the red squirrel that chastised me this morning at Marsh Lake for tossing a few acorns … Continue reading
Filed under Day Tripping, Natural Places, spirit sands
Yurt #4 Spruce Woods Park
I’m just back from a couple of days yurting at Spruce Woods Park. Hot, hot weather – my kind of summer – and cool nights made for a pleasant and relaxing stay. Few neighbours, no sirens and a friendly firepit added … Continue reading
Filed under Accommodations, Linda, Natural Places, Parks, spirit sands
