{"id":1064,"date":"2008-09-19T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2008-09-19T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T22:43:00","slug":"crossing-a-different-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Crossing a Different Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chasclifton.com\/graphics\/slough.jpg?w=625\" align=\"center\"><br \/><em>A typical prairie slough in the Sheyenne River drainage. Cookie, a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogbreedinfo.com\/germanwirehairedpointer.htm\"> German wirehaired pointer<\/a>, is looking for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sharptailed_Grouse\">sharp-tailed grouse<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I left my hosts&#8217; home in North Dakota on Wednesday for the two-day drive home. On I-94 east of Jamestown, N.D., I saw a sign proclaiming the Continental Divide, elevation 1,400-something feet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the hell?&#8221; I thought, being a good Coloradan. &#8220;What is the Continental Divide doing here? And so low!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then it hit me: I had spent the previous few days along and near the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheyenne_River\">Sheyenne River<\/a>, which flows into the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_River_of_the_North\">Red River of the North<\/a>, which flows into Lake <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Winnipeg\">Winnipeg<\/a>, which in turn discharges into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hudson_Bay\">Hudson Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, I had just crossed from the Arctic Ocean drainage back into the Atlantic Ocean&#8217;s. Almost immediately the land became drier, with fewer sloughs, and I started spotting a few <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_pivot_irrigation\">center-pivot sprinklers<\/a>. Yikes, the Arctic! And without even entering Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Autumn, however, has progressed farther here in southern Colorado: willows and Gambel oaks are turning color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A typical prairie slough in the Sheyenne River drainage. Cookie, a German wirehaired pointer, is looking for sharp-tailed grouse. I left my hosts&#8217; home in North Dakota on Wednesday for the two-day drive home. On I-94 east of Jamestown, N.D., I saw a sign proclaiming the Continental Divide, elevation 1,400-something feet. &#8220;What the hell?&#8221; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ha","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":783,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=783","url_meta":{"origin":1064,"position":0},"title":"Culture notes from the road","author":"Chas S. 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