As some of you may know Glen and I had the kitchen gutted in the early Spring last year. I am telling you this as renovations of this magnitude take a fair amount of money. Therefore we did not travel very far from home in 2017. We did however take a number of wonderful day trips out to some of the small communities in and around Brandon such as Virden, Elva, Margaret & Inglis which is famous for its surviving Grain Elevator Row and is a National Historic site. We've always talked about visiting there but for some reason didn't get around to going. If you have ever wanted a lovely prairie drive where the sky seems to go on forever may I suggest the trip. The town of Inglis is 1.5 kms East off Highway 83 approximately 19 kms North of the town of Russell. After visiting Inglis be sure to take the short drive to where 'the scenic Assiniboine River Valley and the Shell River join' at the Shellmouth Dam to form the Lake of the Prairies.
  Please enjoy South Western Manitoba with the following photos...