Location: 5 miles NW of Saratoga, WY |
GPS: 41d 30m 40.6s -106d 51m 42.8s |
Map / Satellite Image: Google Link |
Travel Directions: Remarks: Bird Cloud, Proulx’s fascinating tribute to her home, replete with detours into her family’s history, the life and times of the region, and the challenges she faced in designing and constructing a very “special” home, is well worth reading. Seeing the site before reading Bird Cloud made us appreciate the book all the more. The view from the huge windows of her home is not static. Thousands of birds find shelter in Sheep Rock’s natural depressions, making it a natural avian sanctuary. It is a setting which reminded one writer of this passage from The Shipping News: “Nothing but rock and sea, the tiny figures of humans and animals against them for a brief time.” [1] See: Important: Quotation: [1] The Guardian, December
11, 2004, “Home on the Range,” Aida Edemariam, |
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Revised 27 March 2012