This is about the only drawing I did while actually in Three Hills. The Super 8 motel actually sits where a farm sat 50 years ago. The motel is a happening place. There are always people in there. From bikers on a weekend explore, to Hutterites arranging rides around the country. It happened to be a long weekend and the motel was crawling with families and kids- some were going to the Dinosaur museum in Drumheller. That is some 25 miles to the south, in Alberta desert country. This was early one morning. I took a walk out around the parking lot, and this is what I found. Some truck driver found an overnight harbor for his rig, in the parking lot at the motel. There are no real harbors close, but I am sure there are reclamation projects to be done. Or maybe this was headed to the west coast, one Province away. The pine trees in this part of Alberta have a different feel than the cedar trees of Kansas. The prairie is rolling and yellow green from the maturing canola, mixed with wheat and barley fields in a latitude where they get enough rain to need little if any irrigation. I do not remember seeing barley fields since helping with harvest in south west Nebraska in the early 1960's.
This vacuum tank sitting on this lowboy looks like it is made for sucking up polluted sea water. What you do with it after that, I have no idea. I made a note of one of the warning signs posted on the back that warns operators or maintenance people of one of the dangers working on this piece of equipment. You can also see a sketchy reproduction of the logo that was on the door of the semi tractor with the waves below and the sea gull above.
This is a lot of jabbering for a small sketch!
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