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Which is funny, because Idaho is soooo different from here! But probably the houses and roads are a lot similar...

Of course I've only been on the eastern edge of Idaho, by Wyoming, in the Rocky Mountain country. :)

Thanks for looking! ♥

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Parts of Idaho are certainly like the prairies, but other areas (Coeur D'Alene, for example) are not at all. It's amazing how much difference in the landscape you can come across by driving across a State.

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Well, you've got so much land in the Americas, haven't you? A couple of US states must be wider across than the UK at its widest - and we've got a lot of geographic change going on.

Actually, what I really liked about Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming was how the landscape didn't change that rapidly. The scale of things took my breath away.

Edited Date: 2011-07-11 03:24 pm (UTC)

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*laughs*

Okay, then you'll have to drive across Saskatchewan sometimes. Oregon, Washington and Idaho are riveting with their variety of vista compared to our poor old Canadian breadbasket.

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Ha! I feel the same way about the middle US. When I drove the 2000 miles moving from Las Vegas to Indiana, it was gorgeous through Utah and western Colorado, and then a long bit of NOTHING FARM NOTHING from eastern Colorado through Kansas (417 miles of Kansas alone-- it felt endless!) and Missouri and Illinois. It didn't become pretty to me until I crossed the border into Indiana. It could have been homesickness, but then I think the drive through the western half of Indiana on I-70 is considered a "scenic route." :)

I'd still love to see more of Canada, prairie and all. ♥

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It may be that Indiana is more like Manitoba, which is more scenic than (southern) Saskatchewan (northern Saskatchwan has more lakes, rivers and woodlands.) Those prairies can be endless though. Hypnotic.

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So pretty. And mmmmmm, corn growing.

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Thank you! And I look forward to having the sweet corn come into the groceries. :)

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Very lovely! I particularly love the one with image reflected in your rearview mirror. It encapsulates a fascinating sense of continuity and 'distortion of the past'.

Indiana is so much like the prairie part of Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba, all those flat, fertile plains so verdant with crops in June and July, but golden or brown for the rest of the year.

Jann Martel once said that the endless skies and distant horizons gave a sense of infinite possibilities to people who lived on the Plains, whereas the mountains tended to hem one in with limitations. I don't know if that is necessarily true, but I get a sense of that when I'm in flat farming country.

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Thank you! I was pleased with that rearview mirror pic also. :) And you're right-- starting in late August or so, the rain slows down and the corn and grass go brown and it's not the same at all. In winter it's just gray, ew.

You know, it's strange, but I feel almost the opposite about the sky-- that the sky seems smaller and things seem a lot closer in Indiana than in the west, which feels to me so much more big-sky country. Driving just outside Las Vegas would sometimes give me vertigo, the sky was so huge. I think it was the sheer size of the mountains that gave me that feeling.

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The landscape in the SW desert is completely unlike anything you find in Canada, except maybe for the badlands around Drumheller or Cypress Hills.

How odd that the sky seems closer in Indiana. Maybe the ceiling tends to be lower. People have said that European skies feel really 'close', but I never noticed that. I'm used to the prairie sky being absolutely enormous. To the point where culumonimbus clouds on the horizon look like tiny little puffballs.

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Thanks for the pics. It doesn't look like the corn is as high as an elephant's eye yet, though. :)

Hope your renovation work is proceeding well and that your sunburn heals quickly.

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Thank you for looking!

Ha, there is a saying here-- you know you're a Hoosier when you understand the phrase "knee high by the Fourth of July." It's at least Kristen-high right now, and I'm 6'.

(A Hoosier is a person from Indiana, by the way.)

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I'm somewhere between 5' 1" and 5' 2" and rapidly shrinking, so it's hard for me to judge height. XD

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Ohh, my dad always said that, but he was born and raised in NYC. Can he be an honorary Hoosier? :-)

Lovely pix, I've driven through northern Indiana on a couple of occasions, but it was so long ago that all I remember is how awful the smell was around Gary.

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Well, first we have to find out if your dad can play Euchre. If so, then he's totally an honorary Hoosier. :)

Thank you! Northern Indiana is not so pretty... very, very, very flat, and full of industry (a la Gary). Though there are some dunes by Lake Michigan. :)

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XD I always tell my husband that saying: "knee high by the Fourth of July."

I remember my Dad telling me that when I was young.

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My father was a farm foreman and they grew corn on thousands of acres. I don't know if people who did not grow up in that kind of environment can get what you are talking about. I think corn fields and farm country is beautiful.

A friend of mine grew up in New Mexico. She missed her home area and said to me once that it was "too green" around here. LOL.

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You know, I don't always find it beautiful, but the morning was such a nice one. And I guess living in the desert for eight years makes me appreciate the green, green, green everywhere now.

And it's so funny-- I was thinking about you when I posted this, because I knew you were another Midwesterner. And then your father was a farm foreman, even. :)

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Us farm girls got to stick together. LOL

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Double post. I like your pictures too!

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anirt.livejournal.com

Lovely capture of midwestern farm country. The rearview pic is also my favorite.

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Thank you! To another midwesterner. :)

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We used to tube in VA when I was in college. I have wonderful memories of that. And then again when my parents lived in Austin. My memories of those trips are blurrier. We generally had hard (and blue; it was always blue) liquor on those texas trips!! Good times. It has been about 20 years now!

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