The Windy Prairie
Mike,
Two months ago, Beth & I drove up to the Pawnee National Grasslands in the northeast corner of Colorado, close to the borders of Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas. We wondered if it was like the Kansas prairie that we drove through last January, or like the prairie that your father grew up in. It turned out to be drier and windier than we expected. So windy it was, we had to drop our plan of hiking to the Pawnee Buttes, the most mountain-like things the early settlers saw on their travel west to the Rockies. In gusts, we could barely stand up. It’s an ideal place for wind power mills, and that’s where most of Colorado’s wind power comes from.
This contains an embedded movie of some tumbling tumbleweeds, to provide a touch of the spirit of the winds.
–rakkity
I got progressive lenses (eyeglasses, you know) in September and for most of October kept trying to straighten text I was printing that was already straight. Just now, I found myself trying — in much the same way — to get that house (or was it really a barn?) to stand back up.
Comment by jennifer — December 8, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
When I got progressive lenses, it was me, not the houses, that had to learn how to stand up straight!
Comment by rakkity — December 9, 2007 @ 11:37 pm