Burn Season #7952
In the Flint Hills of Morris County, Kansas
Burn Season #7915
Seasonal range burns help maintain the prairie ecosystem. This is photographed in the Flint Hills of Morris County, Kansas
Burn Season #7915
Morris County, Kansas
Emporia Art Walk
Emporia, Kansas – A member of the Emporia High School Fine Arts Club shapes some pottery at the 2010 Art Walk. The artist has such an angelic look and complexion I just had to compose with the pizza pan behind her head to complete the effect – kind of a Madonna of the…
Industrial Building – Chanute
Chanute, Kansas – I like the muted colors and fogged windows of this retired industrial building, on Grant Avenue near the railroad tracks.
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…
Madam Ladybug
The first ladybug of Spring popped into the picture when I stopped along a Cowley County, Kansas country road to photograph henbit.
Waterflow
Cowley County Fishing Lake, Kansas – Below the waterfall
Luminarias
Herington, Kansas – As I drive into Herington I see road-blocks on the main streets, turning the town into a bit of rat-in-the-maze fun as I navigate sidestreets to make my way through. I glance toward the heart of the city and see hundreds of paper bags lining…
Room for the Sky
Flint Hills, Chase County, Kansas
Lake’s Edge & Gathering Storm
Marion Reservoir, Kansas
Lake Shore
Marion Reservoir, Kansas – Strong, cold winds are blowing across the plains as the first wave of winter’s return moves in. The south shore of the lake boils with whitecaps, spraying me with frigid water as I set up the tripod. Fingers are already freezing, but…
Wedge-Leaf Draba
Marion County, Kansas – These very tiny flowers were found along the rocky side of a country road. They’re the first country wildflowers I’ve noticed so far, and I could have easily missed them if I hadn’t been carefully searching for something…
Pollen Gatherer
The sun is warming the new blossoms in our front yard. It’s too pretty to work through spring break so I’m taking a bit of vacation time, studying the first bee to visit. It’s a miraculous event, this parade of emerging new life before us.
Run-Off
Flint Hills area, Chase County, Kansas – Run-off from a recent rain streams downhill along the Flint Hills road. I drive along it for miles but don’t see another soul. Despite its beauty there is enough wildness to keep casual drivers from venturing through….