Happy Birthday Wyoming!

Happy 122 birthday to my wonderful homestate of Wyoming today!

We were the first state to allow women to vote and elected the first woman governor, the homeplace of JCPenney, where the first national park was created (Yellowstone), and where the nation's oldest national moment resides (Devil's Tower).

Today we have the world's largest coal mine in the U.S.  (Black Thunder Mine near Wright), are a leading producer of sheep and wool in the country, and host the "Daddy of 'em All" Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo each July in Cheyenne. Agriculture, energy and tourism top our revenue list each year, and we are a conservative, republican based state.

Our just over 560,000 residents are significantly outnumbered by cattle (we like it that way), and there are still a lot of wide open spaces across this great state. I've been fortunate enough to travel much of it via main highways, backgrounds, and trails - in cars, on horses and even occasional in a plane. Grab your atlas and take a look around my beautiful state with me!

 (Black Hills, northeast Wyoming)

 (northern Niobrara County, eastern Wyoming)

 (Bighorn Mountains, near Buffalo)

 (Goshen County, southeast Wyoming)

 (Powder River, near Kaycee)

 (Outside Lander)

 (Southwest Wyoming)

 (Johnson County, near Sussex)

 (On top of the Bighorn Mountains)

 (Pathfinder Reservoir running over in 2010, near Alcova, central Wyoming)

 (Between Gillette and Buffalo)

 (near Dubois)

 (northern Fremont County)

 (near TenSleep)

 (Rocky Point, northern Wyoming)

 (Yellowstone Park)

(Yellowstone Park)

(near Wheatland)

 (Laramie, 10 months out of the year)

Pictures of Cattle

Here are some cattle photos from recent weeks for you to enjoy. They were taken on our place, and while helping Adam near Ten Sleep. Hope you had a great Wednesday!





Driving over the Big Horns

I get to make the drive over the Big Horn Mountains more often than ever before in my life these days. It's one of two ways to get from my house to Adam's, and it also happens to be one of my favorite drives, so I take it whenever possible.
Here are a few pictures from my latest trip, which happened to be the day after their first big snow of the year.

Big Horn Sunset

I snapped this on Adam and I's way off the Big Horns the other night. It's been super busy around here lately, but that also means we're getting a lot accomplished!

Hope you're having a fun and relaxing weekend!

Windmills and such

I really didn't plan to have so many windmill photos in one post, but that's how it ended up, so here they are. I have lots of pictures to share, and am going to be very busy for the next few weeks, so there will be more of these quick photo posts to come!
Also, welcome if you're a new follower. I've noticed there are some new people and I appreciate you following!


Windmill #1- While home for thanksgiving I had to run my brother over to his semi, and while there saw this windmill head leaning against an old building.




The next post will probably be titled, "Cows and such," since this is the only cow photo in this group and I always seem to take more of those than anything else. The heifer on the right is #2, and my favorite one this year.




Taken in eastern Wyoming while checking a water tank.




Drove a back road part of the way home from Torrington following an interview, and stopped several times.





This would be the road.





Windmill #2





Another shot from Johnson County, of which there are more to come following another trip up there for interviews. Finally managed to be there on a day when it was snowing, which was great since all the photos are being used for our Winter Cattlemen's Edition.





Windmill #3





The black hills at sunset



Black hills again.