A variety of other state-based blogs, like Calitics (California), the Albany Project (New York), and Prairie State Blue (Illinois), all relied on Preston's software.
It was a bright, chilly day with a prairie sky: saturated blue flocked with fat cumulus clouds.
It is the last day of summer, and I am walking under a blue prairie sky through the grounds of a medium-security prison in Alberta, Canada.
Now developers are creating structures that "express the synthesis of the angularity of the mountains and ice fields with the flatness of the big blue prairie sky," he said.
On a humid Wednesday in late June, as she waited to be summoned by a grand jury, 16-year-old Teresa Jeffs hitched up her navy blue prairie dress and hoisted herself into the crooked arms of a live oak tree that sits in front of the Schleicher County Courthouse in Eldorado, Tex.
The poignantly played "Blue Prairie" saunters along like a slowly setting sun in the desolate distance.
"That doesn't give me a lot of confidence," Judge Gossett said, staring down from the bench at Ms. Jeffs, who was dressed in a pale-blue prairie dress.
The schools of fish we used to see frothing the ocean's blue prairies in the 1980s are gone.
Iconic skyscrapers rise from the strip-mall-strewn prairie to pierce the blue in a jumble of geometries, their glinting glass, steel, stone and concrete announcing the power and prestige of the capital of the Midwest.
He built the long bluestone wall in front of the house himself, then edged his yard, where it meets the meadow, with an L-shape stripe of prairie dropseed and cobalt blue liatris.
They know that summer in Aspen is when nature is in full swing, and the glowing fields of wild blue flax, prairie smoke and sunflowers, framed by snowcapped peaks and groves of aspen, do a fine job of wooing attention away from the glitterati.
