Sentences with phrase «open prairie»

Back in the pioneer days when I first held my real estate licence (closely, as it was very windy out on the open prairie astride my buckboard), I should have considered using a professional photographer for listing sheet brochures.

Whether you prefer riding across the open prairie east of the Missouri River, or exploring the scenic beauty afforded by the many trails that run through the Black Hills, this state has a lot to offer.

Nestled into a wooded ridgeline between the plant nursery and an open prairie, the center takes cues from the surrounding forest to become at once unique and at home in this place.

They are both situated in the open prairie plains without hills or obstructions.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

Little Bald Hills Horse / Backpack Camp Campground features 5 campsites with old - growth forest and an open prairie.

Nathan Halpern's music invites a contemplative mood, while Joshua James Richards» cinematography contrasts the inviting, wide - open prairie with the crowded trailer interior.

From its gorgeous photography of the wide - open prairie — across which actor - director Costner and Robert Duvall drive cattle as some of the last «freegrazers» of the cowboy era — to their brutal, wide - ranging, Peckinpah - worthy climactic shootout in a dusty town run by an iron - fisted rancher (Michael Gambon), this is some of Costner's best work in front of or behind the camera.

With their voracious appetites and propensity to trample everything around them, wild and domesticated bovines maintained an ever - shifting mosaic of ecosystems ranging from deep forest to open prairie.

Only a half - mad seer — not any of the blacks who worked the open prairies and hidden ball yards in each big city — could have envisioned what would happen one day.

You'll pass through wide - open prairies, shady wooded areas, and several small towns with rest areas and amenities — like restaurants, bars, and shops — for tired, hungry riders.

And CGI critters abound, from the opening prairie dogs that seem to think they're in Caddyshack 3 to some helpful monkeys that teach Shia LeBeouf how to navigate some cartoon treetops.

Open prairies allow for safe viewing.

Ironically, it wasn't the mountain roads Magnus found most arduous, but the open prairies where winds «drained so much out of each rider.»

Not exact matches

Me, the one that rushed here and there, always something to do, prairie - kid mentality of idle hands being open for mischief, was now loving being here, studying every eyelash, every move, every change.

There were wide areas dotted with mesquite and huisache, open, grassy prairies, knolls covered with groves of gnarled live oak trees, shallow depressions which are flooded in times of rain and dense thickets covering the bottom land along the river.

Park planners and landscape architects held their first open house on Monday to show site plans for four neighborhood parks with features, such as prairie grasses and picnic shelters, that will be added in five to seven years.

The exhibits along the path, which opened last month, include a boardwalk that zigzags over a wetland, a Native American wigwam, the foundation of a prairie sod home and a garden filled with flowers hybridized by a priest from the nearby Society of the Divine Word.

Successes on the plateaus of Bale and the prairies of North America could open the door for other vaccines to protect threatened species.

Blazing fires could burn down existing stands, opening room for colonization by faster - growing prairie grasses or other plants.

Large - scale landscape change — loss of wildflower - rich prairies to crop monoculture or conversion of open lands to suburban development, for instance — is a threat to pollinators and may play a major role in declines by making it harder for bees and other pollinators to find a meal.

Burton opened with a series of long - sleeved maxi dresses in fine Shetland lace layered with black leather bralets embellished in silver studs and trimmed in jingling bells; those bralets also toughened up daintily floral printed prairie dresses with sweet puff sleeves, as did the steel toe - capped and studded combat boots that came with everything, and those shrunken black leather jackets with streams of jet bead tassels or otherwise decorated in colourful rose embroideries with zip - on / zip - off peplums.

It would be tempting to assume that most date ideas in the prairie provinces involve some combination of open skies, waving grasses, and cowboys — and while these can be fun (Calgary Stampede anyone?)

Utilizing Rockstar's proprietary Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE), Red Dead Redemption features an open - world environment for players to explore, including frontier towns, rolling prairies teeming with wildlife, and perilous mountain passes - each packed with an endless flow of varied distractions.

The story opens in 1871, as Danish immigrant Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) welcomes his wife (Nanna Oland Fabricius) and young son to the American prairie where he has worked for seven years.

Dourif plays a man riding back to Jacksonville Florida to see his wife (by horse across the prairies — the time period is likely late 1800s) when he encounters Jones after bunking down for the night in the great wide open.

Set in the Dakota Territory of 1879, where survival is already a challenge, Petty brings a starkly unglamorized sensibility to life and mortality on the Dakota prairie: it opens with a boy come a courting to a farmgirl only to discover a massacre and what appears to be the abduction of the girl.

Far from diminishing his reverence for nature, his burgeoning belief in evolution opens vistas as immense as the sparsely populated American prairies that the Lewis and Clark Expedition had mapped not long before the voyage of the Beagle.

When we hear the word «frontier,» our thoughts often turn to the wild, untamed West, full of wagon trains, cattle drives and little houses on the prairie, where rugged men and women eked out a meager existence in their search for open space, gold or simply a new life.

Coachwhips are commonly found in open areas with sandy soil, open pine forests, old fields, and prairies.

You could visit the Hungarian Puszta, one of Europe's largest expanses of protected prairie, and a UNESCO World Heritage site where Hungarian grey cattle, stud horses, Racka sheep with spiral - shaped horns and buffalo herds graze on open pastures.

Discover the natural beauty of Canada from the comfort of your seat as you travel by train past its many wonders including the breathtaking Canadian Rocky Mountains, the vast open fields of the Prairies, the majestic Niagara Falls and the warmhearted Maritimes.

Utilizing Rockstar's proprietary Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE), Red Dead Redemption features an open - world environment for players to explore, including frontier towns, rolling prairies teeming with wildlife, and perilous mountain passes - each packed with an endless flow of varied distractions.

The game will run on Rockstar's proprietary Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE), which also powered Grand Theft Auto IV, and will be based in an open - world environment packed with towns, prairies» and wildlife.

The depopulation of the environment allows for the ambient natural elements to sort of take over from whatever else is going on and gives the player a sense of vastness that so many open world games squander in urban jungles when real jungles — or in this case the mostly temperate plains and prairies — are what they should truly showcase.

Being land locked in Toronto my spirit yearns for the open skies of the Canadian prairies where woodlands mingled with grasslands stretch as far as the eye can see.

«Missouri Prairies: Paintings by John Cleaveland» opens in the Ridgway Center at the Missouri State Botanical Gardens on September 7 and will be on view through November 11.

Imagine an adorable tiny home nestled in big sky country on the wide - open, peaceful prairie.

Preferred habitat: prairies, fields, pastures, open woodlands + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: annual or short - lived perennial + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, well drained + + + + Light conditions: partial shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 9 to 15» apart or 2 pounds of seed per acre + + + + Wildlife value: a butterfly nectar food source; Silvery Checkerspot eat the foliage

The prairie, rural, and desert areas may have wide open spaces that aren't close to fire protection.

The great Canadian prairie was opening up.

Prairie Crossing is a 677 acre community with almost 70 % left as open space including: 160 acres of created prairie.

«Something about the prairie... it just opens your head.

Team with furniture in retro, rustic, Shaker, pared - down prairie style or painted English country styles, and add patterned crockery on open shelves.

A wooden chest of drawers is given a modern slant with open country - inspired shades of prairie yellow, mountain grey and sky blue.