Cecille's Creativity

The Sand Hills are the largest area of sand dunes in the western hemisphere. Here sand dunes, covered with prairie grass undulation like ocean waves, cover eighteen thousand square miles in northwest of Nebraska. This is cattle country, and working windmills dot the landscape, providing well water for the herbs.

Along the southern edge of the Sand hills are several eroded buttes and mesas that served as markers for travelers along the Oregon and Mormon trails. Chimney Rock is a spire that rises 450 feet almost out of nowhere and Scotts Bluff, an 810 foot-high butte, is thought to be at least 14 million deposits of clay and sandstone sediment rise up out of plains to greet the traveler, ancient remains from the ocean floor that once covered these Great Plains.