PrairieDust visual journal

photographer Dave Leiker

Flooded Country Road

Flooded Country Road

Lyon County This passage through the trees on a country road northeast of Emporia is submerged by rising creek waters. Roads in the area are clay and dirt and it’s a no man’s land for while after something like this. I’ve been in that kind of mud a time or two and…

Fromme-Birney Round Barn

Fromme-Birney Round Barn

near Mullinville The old barn, now on the National Register of Historic Places, is wonderfully maintained, clean, and proud. Much more info is available at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/orgs/barns/roundbarn/

Great Sand Dunes National Park

Great Sand Dunes National Park

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…

The Arkansas River

The Arkansas River

Lakin, Kansas – The Arkansas River, run-off from mountain ranges in Colorado, is an important source of water in western Kansas.

The Curtis Cafe

The Curtis Cafe

Stafford, Kansas Very comforting, picturesque, good food and pies, small town ambience…. this is the type of place you hope to find when you’re tired and hungry on a trip. The walls of the Curtis Cafe are covered with a kazillion jigsaw puzzles. I was sort of…