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04/18/10 N. of 56

Silver

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Went and picked some crocuses today with Mrs. Silver and the kids.

Spring's first flower, a rose, and a thorn. No particular order:
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Littlest Silver picking flowers:
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Looking NW:
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Looking SE:
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Straight S and down:
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A crocus:
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A couple of ranch hands:
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A $1,600 auction purchase from last fall. Hauled a load of old manure for the lawn yesterday and it ran like a top.
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Soapweed

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Nice assortment of photos. Thanks for the update. Your country is sure ahead of the Sandhills, as there are sure no flowers blooming here.
 

per

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Nice Silver. My wife and I looked for crocuses this week but none to be found yet. Might be too dry. I have the mate to that truck and need to haul a load of compost for my wife this week.
 

gcreekrch

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If you run across another gem like that truck Silver I could use one at that price.
Then you could deliver it as my licence isn't good until it would hit the backroads. :D

It is a lot closer to spring there than here although lower down there is a lot of bare showing up.
The Sandhill cranes made it home two days ago.
 

burnt

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Thanks for the picture tour, Silver. You live in some wonderful country.

Is there any cropping done out your way? I really don't know much about your part of the country.
 

Silver

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burnt said:
Thanks for the picture tour, Silver. You live in some wonderful country.

Is there any cropping done out your way? I really don't know much about your part of the country.

There are a lot of grain crops grown in the area, although not right in my immediate area as we are in a frigid little micro climate. The Peace country apparently grows the best oats in N. America, lots of canola, barley, some wheat, amongst others. I don't pay too much attention though because I'm pretty much farming illiterate :) I can grow green feed (oats) to bale, and that sums up my farming expertise :wink:
There are market gardens near town down on the river that raise table corn, pumpkins, cucumbers, and all sorts of interesting fruits and veggies....
 

Clarencen

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Soapeed Jassy: You might find this flower about this time of year here, It is not to common maybe not often found as it is a low growing plant. Look on hill tops where vegitation is short or scant. Maybe on the hill tops near the Niobrara river. It is the Easter Daisy. This is a picture of the only one I have ever found.
 

Jassy

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Clarencen said:
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Soapeed Jassy: You might find this flower about this time of year here, t is not to common maybe not often found as it is a low growing plant. Look on hill tops where vegitation is short or scant. Maybe on the hill tops near the Niobrara river. It is the Easter Daisy. This is a picture of the only one I have ever found.



I haven't seen any of these daisies as of yet...but I'm always looking for that first flower of spring!
 

WyomingRancher

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Jassy said:
Clarencen said:
EasterDaisyTownsendiaExcapia.jpg



Soapeed Jassy: You might find this flower about this time of year here, t is not to common maybe not often found as it is a low growing plant. Look on hill tops where vegitation is short or scant. Maybe on the hill tops near the Niobrara river. It is the Easter Daisy. This is a picture of the only one I have ever found.



I haven't seen any of these daisies as of yet...but I'm always looking for that first flower of spring!

I found some yesterday while fixing fence, so if I found them up here, you surely gotta have them down there in the tropics :D .
 

Clarencen

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Wyoming Rancher:
Where did you find this flower? I am interested in what kind of a sire it grows on. The one I found, was some years back, it was growing on a rocky hilltop, among rock outcropings. In Larson and Johnsons' book "Plants of the Black Hills andBear Lodge Mountains" they say it may be more commeon then though as it is so low growing, the botanical name Townsendia exscapa might suggest that it excapes grazing or harvesting because of it low height.
 
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