by Dave | Aug 29, 2011 | Soft Lights
Lyon County, Kansas – The play of light in fine-textured seed heads drew me to this spot. From a distance it looked like a vapor was suspended above the weed patch, so much so that I expected to find a pool of water in the center.
by Dave | Aug 29, 2011 | Landscape
Lyon County, Kansas – Colors from the rising sun brought out the colors in this patch of wild prairie vegetation near Reading Lake. Summer heat has scorched much of the color from the landscape, but it still shows when backlit at dawn.
by Dave | Aug 29, 2011 | Equivalence, Still Life
Melvern Lake, Kansas – Like something from a fairy tale — Should the chained box in the woods be opened? What might we unleash on ourselves or the world. I walked away from it. It’s probably just an old float from the lake anyway.
by Dave | Aug 29, 2011 | Landscape
Melvern Lake, Kansas – When water is high driftwood settles across the depression. It’s dry now and a refuge for spiders and ticks.
by Dave | Aug 29, 2011 | Landscape
Melvern Lake, Kansas – This is a favorite stretch of shoreline west of the Sundance area, about a 1/2 mile walk through grasslands and woods. It’s a great place to look for fossils. Worthenia tabulata fossils wash up with the waves and can be found among the...
by Dave | Aug 21, 2011 | Fauna
This beauty was found doing a trapeze act in my garage this afternoon, illumined by light through the open door. Actual size: ~1/2 inch
by Dave | Aug 20, 2011 | arts
Visiting art shows – always makes me burn a little inside, hungry to improve. A wonderful exhibit by Terry Evans is up now at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University.
by Dave | Aug 15, 2011 | Wildflowers
I think it’s purple poppy-mallow with a touch of milkweed fluff. This was photographed in June in Chase County, Kansas but I’m just getting around to posting it.
by Dave | Aug 15, 2011 | Landscape
Flint Hills, Kansas
by Dave | Aug 14, 2011 | Human, Kansas Culture
In this slideshow Dr. Joyce Thierer demonstrates traditional tools and techniques in the building of a travois.
