by Dave | Jun 18, 2007 | Celebrations, Human, Kansas, Kansas Culture, Small Towns
A colorful tent spread over a Council Grove side street offers refuge from the sun and heat during Washunga Days. The singer is crooning “May I have this dance for the rest of my life”, a wedding anniversary offering to his wife in the audience.
by Dave | Jun 17, 2007 | Celebrations, Human, Kansas, Small Towns
Not the most sophisticated backdrop for our reigning Miss Kansas, but nevertheless, here she is in the Wa-Shung-Ga Days parade, waving to all the rest of us flyover people.
by Dave | Jun 17, 2007 | Celebrations, Human, Kansas, Small Towns
Sack in hand, this kid well prepared to load up on candy tossed from the parade floats.
by Dave | Jun 17, 2007 | Celebrations, Human, Kansas, Small Towns
Friends of Council Grove’s Butler County Community College wait for the Wa-Shun-Ga Days parade to start. The entry, decked out with school colors, includes a line of covered wagons and limestone rock. You have no idea how difficult it was, locating a purple...
by Dave | Jun 3, 2007 | Colorado, Human
Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado More from the continuing saga of flatlander boy visits the mountains: About the biggest sand box you’ll ever see is in Colorado, though before you can sink your toes into the warm sand you have to cross Medano Creek. But...
by Dave | Jun 2, 2007 | Colorado, Human, Landscape
Great Sand Dunes Natl. Park, Colorado
by Dave | Jul 21, 2006 | Human, Kansas, Kansas Culture
These children played the part of talking trees in the children’s’ production of Snow White at this summer’s Shakespeare in the Park. Hamlet, by the community theater, followed afterward. Peter Pan Park’s amphitheatre, in Emporia, provides a beautiful...
