Your next assignment: I don't only want to know where this is, but what this is. What are the undulations on the landscape? Why do the colors change between green and brown so quickly?
It is in Nebraska, just west of McKelvie National Forest. Highway 61 runs right through it. There are a ton of little lakes with hills surrounding them. Did I get it? hahaha!
Well done kiddies. It is the Sandhills of western Nebraska. My mission border was just east of this area. In fact, there is a huge church ranch in the area near Hyannis.
I loved the Sandhills. It was wide open, quiet, peaceful, and very interesting. It wasn't the flat cornfield look you get while driving I-80. The color change is due to water levels, as Katy suggested. Even if there aren't lakes / ponds at the bottom of the hills, there is plenty of gathered water, allowing grasses and cedar trees (an invasive plant to the farmers out there) to thrive. Pretty country. Go Huskers. -Jess
AAAhahaha! He said rural America so I knew it would be somewhere in the Mid-West. So I figured it would be in Nebraska. I looked there first on Google maps, and what do ya know I got it! haha That is the first one I have ever gotten!
Your next assignment: I don't only want to know where this is, but what this is. What are the undulations on the landscape? Why do the colors change between green and brown so quickly?
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It is in Nebraska, just west of McKelvie National Forest. Highway 61 runs right through it. There are a ton of little lakes with hills surrounding them. Did I get it? hahaha!
Katie is right. That is sandhill country. I haven't been up there for 30 years.
So, how'd you get it, Katie?
Well done kiddies. It is the Sandhills of western Nebraska. My mission border was just east of this area. In fact, there is a huge church ranch in the area near Hyannis.
I loved the Sandhills. It was wide open, quiet, peaceful, and very interesting. It wasn't the flat cornfield look you get while driving I-80. The color change is due to water levels, as Katy suggested. Even if there aren't lakes / ponds at the bottom of the hills, there is plenty of gathered water, allowing grasses and cedar trees (an invasive plant to the farmers out there) to thrive. Pretty country. Go Huskers. -Jess
No fair!! You didn't even give me a chance!
AAAhahaha! He said rural America so I knew it would be somewhere in the Mid-West. So I figured it would be in Nebraska. I looked there first on Google maps, and what do ya know I got it!
haha That is the first one I have ever gotten!
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