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Sunflower
Ranch
is located just outside of Elizabeth, Colorado at the transition from
the high plains prairie to the foothills of the Colorado Rockies. We
sit at an elevation of 7,000 feet, where the clear night sky is
alive with the twinkling of thousands of brilliant stars. We
experience the piercing cold of a January blizzard and the lazy, dry
heat of a Colorado afternoon in July. Our western boundary is dense
Ponderosa pine forest and on our east lies the dry land, short grass
prairie. Denver is just over 30 minutes away and we can be skiing
and hobnobbing in Vail in a little over 2 hours.
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We live here with our Gaited Foundation Spanish Mustangs;
Wyoming Dove, Sorpresita, Don Dakotah, Alegria, Blue Dove, Dakotah Blue and Ceruleo's
Night Hawk plus our pretty little BLM mare
Sunflower. There is also our full size BLM donkey,
Donkeyhotey and his two little mini-donkey pals
Rucio and
Sancho.
We are joined by our border collie mix,
Louie, a gray tabby cat formally known as Salvation but who is
always called Sal and a few New Jersey Red chickens that give us all
the fresh, brown eggs we can handle. Our pond is
stocked with bluegill and perch and, when it's really hot outside
with a couple of old folks taking a cooling dip.
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In the summer we’re blessed with grasshoppers, flies, spiders, tiger
salamanders, rock lizards, bull
snakes, rattlesnakes and various
other creepy
crawlies, but also with strikingly beautiful blue birds, melodious
meadowlarks, iridescent green hummingbirds, bright yellow
goldfinches, nattering blue jays, magpies, crows and even a pair of
nesting golden eagles. Our pastures are shared by deer, pronghorn,
skunks, weasels, rabbits, foxes, porcupines, turkeys and the old
trickster himself...the coyote.
We were thoroughly city people who followed our hearts rather than our
heads and ended up here, at the
Sunflower
Ranch
We're glad you stopped by!
Paul & Lynn
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"All
men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their
dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."
~T.E.
Lawrence (of Arabia)
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
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