With the many drives to Saskatoon for house hunting, and the daily walks to explore the town and area, the family was learning to love the many differences in not only lifestyle, but most certainly, in the large landscape. The open prairie was at times difficult to comprehend, coming from what seems like a very crowded Europe by comparison. The highway stretched for miles of 'nothing', the skies were huge and seemingly alive, with new interplays of clouds and sunlight every day, and civilization nearly absent, when reflecting back. Vast is a good descriptor of this new home.
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| First impressions sketched by Waltraude Stehwien |
Also very memorable, was the perspective gained while driving through these vast prairie landscapes. A broad new perspective, as it applies symbolically, to starting a new life in a different world was part of nearly every day. And lessons in perspective, as they apply to the laws of drawing, were incredibly apparent with every roadtrip taken - lessons that Fritz taught often, how all lines eventually meet at the vanishing point.
