Glad you enjoyed looking at the links TYNI.Keep in mind if you head out here the prairie lakes get pretty warm so May/June is usually best to beat the algae (however if our summers are milder, like this year, they tend to stay clear).
The Winery sells out of the chokecherry early on so late August is usually when they have it restocked (it sometimes is sold out before mid-September). People drive/fly down from Edmonton to load up on it (and some expats from the prairies, now living on the lower mainland of B.C., do the same....they can't grow Chokecherries in their balmy climate so wine and jelly is what they load up on here). I start phoning the winery around beginning of August to find when they will be releasing their newest batch.
Our badlands aren't as spectacular as Drumheller/Dinosaur Provincial Park but they still fascinate me (and the surrounding countryside usually isn't as hot). Speaking of which the little town of Eastend, well below Maple Creek, has the petrified remains of Scotty (naturally it's home there has nothing on Tyrell http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/ ...... it's more like a glorified field station). http://www.dinocountry.com/ http://www.dinocountry.com/?s=263&p=263&0=263
Not too far away is Robsart (an "almost" ghost town that I find fascinating): http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=robsart ... searched=1
Robsart has had some annoying people entering "owned" abandoned looking buildings so now they have No Tresspassing signs posted on properties there (staying on the public sidewalks and streets isn't a problem however). It seems that there is a now a large number of people that are spending their summers photographing abandoned towns: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=gho ... rers&meta= And those that enter/break in to set up light painting/props are really ticking the owners off.