Weeds are #Plants too #SundayStills

For our weekly photo post, I’ve chosen to share photos from our current hide out in Rawlins, Wyoming. If you saw last weeks photos, many were also from our current location. Several of our animal friends are regulars around our driveway camping location.

Most people not from Wyoming, associate this state with the geysers of Yellowstone, big cattle ranches, wide open spaces, or even those Grand Tetons mountains.

Unfortunately, I’m not near Yellowstone, or even anything that looks like a grand mountain. We are in Central Wyoming, known for its brutal winds and cold snow. In the warmer months, all you can see for miles is sage brush and dry grasses blowing in the wind.

And what also grows, even thrives, in wide open spaces? Weeds, of course. Weeds that annoy us in our yards and are very unwanted, have provided me with a colorful distraction compared to all the dryness surrounding us.

Cooper is still up for a morning walk. We enjoy making our way to a local walking/biking trail. Although it goes on for several miles, we only get a short distance before the old guy needs to turn around.

Here’s the random colorful weeds that catch my morning attention and even cheer me up.

The yellow dandelions line both sides of the trail in our little walking section.

Sprinkled here and there are small clusters of cactus plants. Although my time in Wyoming has not necessarily been pleasant, seeing a small handful of blooming cactus brought a smile to my face.

Even though the surrounding area is covered in brush, grass, and weeds, the neighborhoods have lovely huge conifers. It is very dry here between the summer heat and continuous winds drying everything out but seeing pine trees means, we’re definitely not in the desert!

When we decided to head to Wyoming, it was going to be a 2 week trek to check on the vacant house Steve inherited last winter. This home is currently up for sale and has some glaring issues that need to be resolved. A few repairs has turned into some major gutting of an enclosed patio room, replacement of the enclosed patio’s roof plus about 20% of the main house roofing, 2000 sq.ft. of new flooring, along with numerous other patches and fixes and a lot of interior painting.

I’m sure I’ll share more about this adventure in the coming weeks either through our weekly photo posts or perhaps a separate write up.

We hope to wrap up our work in Wyoming this week and head back to the Idaho home lot.

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Thanks for visiting our travel blog and I hope you enjoyed finding the #SundayStills Challenge. You can join the weekly challenge by visiting our hosts blog Second Wind Leisure. and checking out Terri’s post for this week, The Glowing Life of Plants.