{"id":864,"date":"2007-01-28T20:46:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T20:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=864"},"modified":"2011-12-24T20:47:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T20:47:04","slug":"unexpected-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/center>Do you ever try to picture our city through the eyes of a first time visitor? I do, because it really helps pick out features that we see every day but somehow fail to notice.<\/p>\n

It should be obvious from the nature of my photography that I’m big on landscapes and other such features. That’s why I was actually startled at the view from State Street and Divide Avenue yesterday. While sitting at a stoplight wondering why the punk in the Civic next to me thought I was interested in a race, I glanced out over the south horizon. We’ve got hills dotted with snow, the sky was red with the waning sunset…it almost had a southwestern feel to it! Yet there I was, right in the middle of my home town, facing a view of it that I’d never given much consideration.<\/p>\n

This area of North Dakota is hardly the smooth expanse of endless prairie that it’s thought to be; we have hills, rocks, valleys, and other features that somehow seem to escape mention. I’ve found a few such places recently and have had a ton of fun poking around therein. It just goes to show that there’s plenty about our home that we don’t know, it’s only a matter of changing your perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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