When I get home...

[zyzyly]

When I get home, I'm gonna buy me a prairie,



and put it in my back yard.

Comments

[gracegiver]

You liking the prairie life, eh?

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I am--it's so awesome. Did you see this post before or after I added the picture to it?

[gracegiver]

before, but I see it now. My goodness Mike. Would you buy me one too?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

that picture is just ridiculous.

God is awesome ~ and so are his prairies.

: D

[pbsage.livejournal.com]

i remember a thundering silence of one big black fly when i was in north dakota one july day thrity three years ago.

[fried-pearl.livejournal.com]

What a magnificent sunset.

[pumpkin-pie-m.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous.

[mylastsigh.livejournal.com]

your photos r rockin n rollin

[ruralrob.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you!

Your post--such lonely, but evocative buildings in the sunset--is so peaceful that I think I'll hold it in my mind and go to bed to remember it.

It's haunting. What are these buildings, I wonder? Who might live in the house with the chimney?

I have read that pioneer women in their sod houses on the prairies would hear the wind day after day and feel so lonely. That is what this wonderful photograph reminds me of. But there's also such a majestic sky! Like a drama outside those isolated houses.

Thank you! This is wonderful.

[fletch31526.livejournal.com]

God paints the best pictures...

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

can we all come visit?~paul

[zeppo-marx.livejournal.com]

I think you'll need a bigger back yard... lol.


Great picture :)

[busychild424.livejournal.com]

I love this post.

[worldcomrade.livejournal.com]

Just like Ted Turner!

[inhim.livejournal.com]

Beautiful photo. What an expansive sky, and a bleeding sun.

[sistermeg.livejournal.com]

Stunning. Thank you for including the clouds.

I grew up on an old farm with a big ol' pasture behind a traditional red farm house. My mother tells the story of driving along the back road before they bought it, looking up past the trees to the long green pasture and saying "I want that".

And my mother doesn't want much. So she got it.

[maggi-may.livejournal.com]

The prairies like you too... thanks for coming, thanks for stopping in. The coffee break (ok iced chai - I'm a wimp) was great and the walk even better.

I was glad to have met you face to face. Our coversation and your ambition were very inspiring for me and kept a huge grin on my face for the weekend!

I like your choice of photos with the grain silos in the back drop, it's a good representation of the prairies.

It's August 3rd as I write, so I am guessing you are in TO (Toronto) now. Not long and you'll be leaving my glorious country. I hope whatever was looking for you while you were up here found you... I thought it may have in this sunset...

Let's keep in touch, I'd like to come your way and learn more/share more with my new friend.


PS - I thought a lot about how we met with a handshake and said goodbye with a hug. I liked that, and hoped that the hug gave you a little warmth and support to make it through the next leg of your journey. Thanks for that either way. I like hugs!

[maggi-may.livejournal.com]

oops... August 4th, I lost a day somewhere!!!

Must have left it in the creek this past weekend with the 8 fish I caught and released! No bragging of course... just a reference point. heh heh

[maggi-may.livejournal.com]

okay, I am clogging up your LJ now, but something weird is going on. Seriously I am looking at the calendar, it says August 3rd, so does CNN. And it is definitely 1254pm, not in the am... strange... and I thought it was my mind!

[(Anonymous)]

growing up i thought i was a city girl -- born in houston, raised in wichita. compared to the small towns surrounding it, wichita was big-time! and i thought for sure i'd want to live in a place like NYC -- horns honking, people scurrying, music blaring.

my grandma lived on a farm near salina, ks, and i spent a lot of time exploring the place but even though i look back fondly at those visits as some of the happiest times in my life, i remember at the time i thought "there is NO WAY i could ever live in the country. especially out on the prairie."

now i live in chicago . . . i love it! it is all the things i dreamt of as a kid, and more. but my dream is to vacation in a cottage next to a lake, or on a farm. i love driving from wichita to chicago or chicago to wichita, and seeing 12 hours of prairie and not much else outside of des moines, st. louis or kansas city.

it is so calming, i just feel *at home* in this place that i couldn't wait to get away from. i love that picture! that's what my grandma's place looks like.

[adr0ck.livejournal.com]

oops -- that was me ^ ^