Cope, Colorado is located in Eastern Colorado along Highway 36. It is very close to the border with Kansas. Because it has fallen on hard times makes it perfect for prairie photography. When I go thru Cope I stop and stretch my legs and try to get new pictures.
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Patriotic Grain
Flagler, Colorado. This is Hal Borland’s birthplace. Author of many books, the one to read is High, Wide and Lonesome. It is about his coming of age on the prairie.
More Signs of Human Activity
Cope and Coffee
On my way to Kansas for work I sometimes take Highway 36 which leads you thru the town of Cope, Colorado. It has seen better days. Turns out that there’s another photographer on the Grainery.app. site that has stopped to take pictures here. So we’re in a friendly competition to put up more photos ofContinue reading “Cope and Coffee”
Downtown Goodland, KS
Some eclectic architecture in downtown Goodland, Kansas.
Eat Beef!
What? Are we not eating enough beef? Apparently so. My take on this is that in the midwest you’re told what to do. usually in the form of large billboards saying “Don’t get Pregnant” and if you do ” No Abortions” then “Don’t Do Drugs”.
My Commute
Decided to take a different route to work yesterday – From Denver to Atwood, KS. I was able to go thru three states: Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas Texas Trail Canyon is in Haigler, Nebraska and the road side memorial is just outside Yuma, Colorado
Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Preserve
Jesus in the Wheat
Despite having come to Colby, Kansas a lot recently , I only just now found out about this billboard off the western most exit ramp to Colby. It was put up and paid for by a couple living in town. They are not anonymous. The Billboard does NOT have a religious message as so manyContinue reading “Jesus in the Wheat”
Bad Weather on the Plains
One day it’s nice – but remember Colors in the morning – Sailers take warning. This is a sunrise in Goodland Kansas. The next day it was a blizzard with I70 closed from Denver to Colby where I had to hunker down for a nite.