April 9, 2008

An Oasis in the Nebraska Sand Hills

Filed under Mike's photos, Nebraska, Travel Photos, family, photography

4-9-2008
Composite image stiched from several photographs.

The back yard of my great-aunt on her ranch in the Nebraska sand hills.

see my “out to the ranch” flickr set

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April 9, 2008

teeni @ 12:09 pm

Wow! Sand hills, you say? The thought of sand doesn’t entire the corners of my mind when I see this lush green back yard! It’s stunning!

teeni @ 12:10 pm

um, that should say “enter” not “entire.” I guess my entire head entered the Twilight Zone as I tried to type that last comment. LOL.

dcr @ 12:44 pm

Did you manually stitch the photos, or use software to do it? You know, I think I’ve asked you that before, and you probably replied. At any rate, the composite looks good. Can’t easily tell where the seams are.

Mike Goad @ 6:24 pm

Tenni - The sand hills are covered in grass. The only places that you can see the sand is “blowouts” the wind has “blown out” an area that’s kind of like a sand trap on a golf course and on the road out to the ranch. My great-aunt used to take care of all of this herself, but now she has people from a nursery come out and plant the garden each year.

dcr - Thanks. I use autostitch. It’s a free download at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

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