Ranch in "Bonanza"

Usage examples of ponderosa.

Finally, at the base, where walls sheered up toward the mesa and the strata of sandstone met a strata of slate, natural seep springs nourished the grander ponderosa pines.

Three steps right, three steps left, he zigzagged upward through the scrub brush and around the boulders, ducking under the thick branches of ponderosa trees.

Demott pointed up Cache Creek, past the clusters of white-barked aspens, past the stately forest of ponderosa, into the dark green wilderness of firs.

She swung onto the road and started climbing around the mountain slope, the ponderosa branches dancing in the wind outside her window.

And then he saw it, almost completely hidden, like the remnants of an old tank--the blue SAAB with ponderosa branches piled over the roof and hood and built up along the sides.

Father John jammed down on the accelerator and turned south on 287, hardly aware of the ponderosa slopes flashing by, the white plains rolling away from the highway.

The trees were indeed lovely, a grand mix of ponderosa and lodgepole pine that rose majestically against the darkening sky.

Black walnuts are more cold resistant and can grow up into the ponderosa zone but they have shorter roots and must live close to stream courses or other sources of water.

Honey locust is considerably more cold tolerant than mesquite and may grow well into the ponderosa life zone at 7,000 feet.

Agaves grow up as high as San Francisco Plaza just below the ponderosa zone, but they are found in greater concentration much lower.

The nopal grows well in its large form in the southern watershed and in its smaller forms it grows up into the ponderosa zone.

Burne had limped away and leaned his hand against the ice-slick bole of a tall ponderosa pine.

Then they build themselves a big house, and they think they ought to name the place, like it was the Ponderosa or something.

The adobe overhang was supported by massive posts of ponderosa pine worn smooth by generations of tourists, and Joe could look at an angle through the colonnade without being seen himself.

The one unsullied vision is the barricaded cabin in the hills, the sense of taking part in Armageddon, even if the final battle is small-scale and local, with FBI agents lofting tear gas over the ponderosa pine.