This past weekend was the third time Anne and I had been to Cheyenne together and the first time we have taken an airplane rather then drive across the five states (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska) separating New York from Wyoming. Flying entailed one layover in Detroit, Michigan, before finally landing in Denver, Colorado. From there, we rented a car and drove two hours North from Denver to Cheyenne, Wyoming. One clear difference in the landscape this time, as compared to our previous excursions West, was just how green the plains looked.
In the past, the grasses were much drier in appearance; a mixture of browns, golds and tans... while there has always been precipitation (the weather changes very quickly--with lightening and dark clouds often floating menacingly over the plains), whatever rain had fallen usually quickly dried up. For whatever reason, on this trip the grasses were greener than we've experienced in year's past, adding a bright green hue to the expansive horizon...
Breathe in, breathe out… YOU AND I ARE ALIVE!
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Welcome back!
I gave you two awards over at Roxiticus Desperate Housewives while you were away, then my computer crashed...so I'm slowly making my way back to business and back to the blogosphere.
Roxy
yea it was a really wet spring on the east side of the divide! I got to spend two months over on the prarie in montana and it was the greenest I had ever seen it!
I used to live in cheyenne though, and it can stay quite green over there!
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