This town is situated on the plains but near the front range southeast of Colorado Springs. Nothing but open space to the east for hundreds of miles
I can not imagine so much space!! we are a bit more crowded in here in The Netherlands!
…the Great Plains, declining in population; more sky than you can ever ask for.
we have our fair share of sky here!!! lovely
You certainly do; I’ve seen memorable skies throughout your pictures!
I have noticed in your pictures a sense of space that I see lacking in photographs of other parts of Europe. I’ve always assumed that’s because the Netherlands have a lot of marshes
We do have spaces between towns and cities, but they are limited. The West is very densily populated, with a ‘green heart’ in the middle of a ring of towns (Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Utrecht that forms the Randstad. In the north, east and south there is more ‘nature’. I think our low horizon creates the feeling of space maybe?
Interesting!
as for the marshes, as good Dutch watermanagement engineers we tend to ‘polder’ them and get control over it 🙂
What is “polder?” Interesting verb!
Haha, it is a verb and a noun! First the noun. Half of The Netherlands is below sea level. So to keep it dry you have to manage water. A piece of land enclosed in dykes is a polder. The water is pumped out regularly and via an infrastructure of smaller and bigger canals pushed into the sea.
The noun ‘polder’ is in a way born from the community activities people had to do together to protect one another against water. The first public agencies here were just for that, and they still do. To polder means to negotiate and to trade for a shared interest: a consensus of political parties or trade unions etc. We have a multi party system so the government based on a majority in parliament is based on a coalition.
JOHN TODARO 
Reminds me of My Hometown by Springsteen
Wow, interesting. I wouldn’t have guessed that
This town is situated on the plains but near the front range southeast of Colorado Springs. Nothing but open space to the east for hundreds of miles
I can not imagine so much space!! we are a bit more crowded in here in The Netherlands!
…the Great Plains, declining in population; more sky than you can ever ask for.
we have our fair share of sky here!!! lovely
You certainly do; I’ve seen memorable skies throughout your pictures!
I have noticed in your pictures a sense of space that I see lacking in photographs of other parts of Europe. I’ve always assumed that’s because the Netherlands have a lot of marshes
We do have spaces between towns and cities, but they are limited. The West is very densily populated, with a ‘green heart’ in the middle of a ring of towns (Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Utrecht that forms the Randstad. In the north, east and south there is more ‘nature’. I think our low horizon creates the feeling of space maybe?
Interesting!
as for the marshes, as good Dutch watermanagement engineers we tend to ‘polder’ them and get control over it 🙂
What is “polder?” Interesting verb!
Haha, it is a verb and a noun! First the noun. Half of The Netherlands is below sea level. So to keep it dry you have to manage water. A piece of land enclosed in dykes is a polder. The water is pumped out regularly and via an infrastructure of smaller and bigger canals pushed into the sea.
The noun ‘polder’ is in a way born from the community activities people had to do together to protect one another against water. The first public agencies here were just for that, and they still do. To polder means to negotiate and to trade for a shared interest: a consensus of political parties or trade unions etc. We have a multi party system so the government based on a majority in parliament is based on a coalition.
Really interesting. Thanks
Beautiful in its decay and nostalgia.
Thanks Joseph; nice to hear from you!
The reduced saturation is fitting. Love this one.
Good to hear; thanks! ⭐