Limbs – B/W version

Limbs – B/W version

Lyon County, Kansas – Winter cabin fever is setting in so, gray skies or not, I drove through country, breathing in the feel of open roads. I stopped beside the ruins of an old farmstead. Fallen limbs and barbed wire lay coiled like snakes in the grass. Beyond the...
Cow

Cow

Flint Hills, Lyon County, KansasThere isn’t much going on here, but I like the simplicity of the area, and all of the open quiet space. I visit this spot occasionally, along a country road not far from town. There’s something elegant about the sweep of...
Supplication

Supplication

Chase County, Kansas – St. Anthony Cemetery – This touching combination of figures was found when we were out looking for images that fit with setting of the book “The Virgin of Small Plains” by Nancy Pickard. The work was chosen by The Kansas Center for...
Return of the Chicken Coop

Return of the Chicken Coop

Here’s a simple study that I find pretty satisfying.It’s more than the place, or the thing. It’s the way light spreads over a scene – especially, for me, when it’s slightly overcast – so that light wraps around things, adds a glow...
Return to Prairie Earth

Return to Prairie Earth

A newly laid grave awaits a marker at this hill-top cemetery in the Flint Hills, north of Elmdale, Kansas. Here’s a little history about the church on the hill: In 1881, Joshua Shipman made an offering of $100 to begin construction of a church. The cornerstone...