PrairieDust visual journal

photographer Dave Leiker

Woods-lined Bank and Cabin

Woods-lined Bank and Cabin

Afternoon light spills over fresh spring growth behind the Charles Rogler cabin, at Pioneer Bluffs, north of Matfield Green, Kansas. Further below, a clear-water stream winds over white limestone, under a flowering redbud tree.
Cowley County’s Waterfall

Cowley County’s Waterfall

Cowley County State Fishing Lake, east of Arkansas City, Kansas on highway 166 – As one would expect, Kansas doesn’t have a wealth of grand waterfalls, but it does have a few. Located in the southern reaches of the Flint Hills, Cowley County Fishing Lake has a beauty...