Backcountry Room with a View
4 Deer, 3 Buttes, 2 Geese and 1 Winter Day in 2019 all got together for this family image.
The 4 Deer were minding their own business looking for tasty morsels in the stubble of the hay field. Food is the deers main concern. This followed closely by the hunt for open/moving water. Just 2 miles east of here, there is no ground water worth speaking of. Geology determines where we live…. No shallow water of as the geology under ground turns from Dinosaur Beach under my feet to impermeable Ocean shales. (Sharks Teeth and Cretaceous Reptiles/Cephalopods) ) . This ground though is sub-irrigated by that Cretaceous beach sand It actually serves as a HUGE subsurface water aquifer from Canada to New Mexico. Watering Millions with groundwater a little high in total dissolved solids… (usually mixed with other water). It outcrops and recharges here albeit slowly. (Fox Hill Sandstone.) Makes wonderful prairie land all those minerals AND water wicking up from below.
3 Missouri Buttes, volcanic conduits all punched up through all these older Dinosaur age sediments 40.5 million years ago. The Cretaceous They are a fixture peering south from northern Crook County Wyoming. Taken a few feet from the MT/WY border. Geologists see deeper than the surface of things of their mind. 👀⚒
2 Canada Geese overnighted on that hay stack. They were sleeping as I pulled up. Took a second to align this composition. What a bunch of characters all. I personally have never seen geese on a hay stack before but I don’t have a lot of hay stacks about my place.
On Wyotana Backroads.
Location: Montana/Wyoming border (Wyotana) , northern most Crook County Wyoming, southern most Powder River County Montana looking south.
Title: Backcountry Room with a View