On a recent road trip through southern Colorado, we visited the Comanche National Grassland.  This 440,000 acre section of high prairie was created as a wildlife refuge for the protection of prairie grassland in 1960 by the US government.

The ironic twist is that the US government is trying to buy the land that is next to it and turn it into a huge play yard to try out army toys.  The locals are really fighting this by not selling.  There are signs posted all over Pinion Canyon area stating this land is not for sale to the army.

Let’s see, I could be watching these beautiful horses eating on the grass or watch an army tank digging its tracks across the vulnerable prairie grassland shooting its cannon and making deep holes.   That’s a tough one.

There is a web site you can visit if you want to learn more about it. http://www.pinoncanyon.com/   

Getting back to the horses, the dark brown one was curious and worked his way towards us.  I managed to get some pictures while he was showing off his beautiful mane flowing in the wind.  He was just a hamming it up.  He doesn’t know it but I named him Sage, the high plains warrior.

Deep inside me I was envious of the horses.  They are free to do what they please.  Not infected by the wrath of living in a modern society.  Dealing with a mortgage payment or the gas prices.  Just wondering around eating clumps of grass while listening to the ever blowing prairie wind scented with sage and juniper.

I hope you enjoyed the beautiful horse photos.  I know I was glad to have had the good fortune to take them.

Walk in beauty

KCDoberstein