Driving Colorado
March 31, 2015
Pawnee Grasslands, CO
We drove back to Ft. Collins, CO from Nebraska along Highway 14, which passed through the Pawnee Grasslands. This sea of short prairie grass and wide open spaces gave one a feeling of expansiveness and timelessness.
Colorado Highway 14
Hay bales (edited photo)
Snow fence
Snow fence
We saw wide open prairie, wind farms, feedlots, and snow fences.
“Snow Fence”
by Ted Kooser, from Flying at Night: Poems 1965 – 1985
The red fence
takes the cold trail
north; no meat
on its ribs,
but neither has it
much to carry.
Fence posts capped by cow skulls
Abandoned house along Hwy 14, CO
Country road with Rockies in the distance, Colorado
Distant Rocky Mountains, nearing sunset
Rosemary's Blog 
March 31, 2015 at 8:22 am
haunting. Thanks.
April 1, 2015 at 4:24 am
wow i had no idea it was also very flat!! and dryish looking (tells self, silly it IS winter) Is it much different than Nebraska?
April 2, 2015 at 8:16 am
The part of Colorado we drove through was a bit hillier than Nebraska. Nebraska along the Platte River was truly flat.
April 1, 2015 at 4:48 am
The best part? Seeing the snow fence. Putting up and taking down the snow fence always was an important seasonal marker — as you surely know. I suspect it might have been used in Minnesota, too.
That last photo is glorious.
April 3, 2015 at 12:11 pm
why, a snow fence?
April 3, 2015 at 12:17 pm
To cut down on the drifting. In Iowa, they always lined the highways — maybe 50′ back from the road itself, give or take.
April 2, 2015 at 11:15 pm
Love the pictures -esp. the abandoned building with the sky on the other side of the windows. I wonder, could that be an abandon school house?