"We have left less than one-tenth of one-percent of our prairie.

The rest of it died to make Iowa safe for soybeans."

Loren Lown quoted in

Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics, and

Promise of the American Prairie

 

I have not posted for awhile I thought I would finish

with photos from our trip home from the cabin in August.

Shaun a bit more woodsy now trots down the lane before

our two day car ride. The 9 hour round trip has been

split over two days with the dogs which allows for stops

and sight seeing. As always I am fascinated by the flat

landscape and vast sky of the prairie.

 

 

"On a bus headed South

The sky opens to a great bowl of prairie

distance is everything here.

the currency of wind, grass

the dance of clouds with their shadows"

 

draft

Guy

 

 

Some of the best places to stop are the access roads

leading to the oil & gas pumps and compressor

stations nestled amid the immaculate monoculture

crops of the southern prairie, better living thru chemistry.

Still one does find that even there nature continues.

 

 

A  brief passage thru the Badlands.

 

I believe I once received a tin Marx copy of this exact
barn for Christmas, I was a very lucky little boy. I also

recall my dog Lassie ( a pom ) gnawed the heads off

the plastic sheep.

"I used to think that the soul

Grew by remembering, that by retaining

The character of all times and places it had lived

And working backwards, year by year,

                                                      It reached the center of a landscape "
               
                                                                      from The Near Future

John Koethe