Prairie Flowers Conversation

Here is a conversation I had yesterday with a very nice lady, who lives in New Jersey and whom I consider a friend, who has never been to Kansas. Obviously she has never seen photos of Kansas prairie flowers.

Alison: I didn’t bring my camera because I never end up taking photos. The only thing I’m [...]

Across the Prairie

“Starting on May 5, 1983, Vicky Foth and I walked for the next eighty days across Kansas and eastern Colorado, from the mouth of the Kansas River in Kansas City to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains south of Denver. We walked 690 miles, averaging about 10 miles a day, traveling parallel to the Santa [...]

America the Beautiful

“O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!”

Katharine Lee Bates, Pikes Peak, Colorado, 1893

Garden Therapy

my neighbor's tree is shading my garden

If you’ve ever read The Secret Garden I’m pretty sure there will be no doubt in your mind that gardening can be therapeutic. But did you know there is actually such a thing as garden therapy? How does that sound for a career choice?

I happened to meet a [...]

Prairie Flowers

The Kansas prairie is so hot, but the prairie flowers are so beautiful. It’s worth braving the scorching sun to see them. I took this series of photos on June, 28th 2009. How many of them do you recognize?

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