The grasslands of eastern Colorado attract a lot of visitors.

Vesper Sparrow nest, safely hidden!

There are many Vesper Sparrow nests in this grassland/cow pasture.
There are also 20 Blue bird nest boxes put up to provide nesting sites for Mountain Bluebirds.

   The Buddha and the Fox:    Funny how the fox loves my garden. This one especially loves to lie on the pillow of Marrubium rotundifolium,or Horehound, a native plant of Turkey. M. rontundifolium takes no water, a definite plus. Its leaves are a lot prettier than its pesky need- to- be -deadheaded flowers.  My patch of it is about 7 years old and is about 5 ft X  5 ft.  The floxes sleep in our yard a lot more recently now that we are temporarily dog-less.

Late February storm along the Platte, Foxes visiting in our yard

 I am an Eastcoaster transported to the Rocky Mountain area after having had a brief sojourn of a few years in Lund, Sweden. Many years after this, I was reading blogs from Sweden and Norway to practice the language.  I soon saw that I related to their attachment to the land in the garden blogs..  I know gardening in Scandinavia is particularly challenging.  I consider my blog musings a response to the attachment to the land that I read about in their blogs. I have new attachments now, to this high and dry plateau, the grasslands of the Interior West.
I garden on an acre lot, divided to accommodate two horses, in zone 5b.