Labels:outdoor | text | cloud | grass | sky | water | landscape | nature | lake | plant | highland | fell | mountain | hill OCR: A lowland oasis within an upland desert, the Frenchman River Valley is a land of geographic contrasts. Dense grasses fringe this river-fed reservoir north of Eastend, Sask ., while barren buttes lay bare their geological history - the white layer of kaolinite clay on the hillside dates from the age of the dinosaurs. Photographer: Thomas Kitchin First Light