Clouds and Contrails
Barton County, Kansas Lens: Nikon 12-24 DX
Toad Hollow Open House
Toad Hollow Daylily Farm, Emporia, Kansas – The Open House / Iris Show was is this weekend, rescheduled from a rainy last weekend. The gardens are looking fantastic, with some new pieces of statuary in the mix.
White Table
Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, Arkansas – It’s a simple photo that I find very calming. The openess and light, the freshness of the large empty table, does nice things in my brain, and helps get me ready for the possibilities a new day will bring.
Fountain at the Crescent
Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
North School Entrance
Neosho Falls, Kansas – Though a couple hundred people live in Neosho Falls, the small ghost town is a skeleton along the road. A flood in the early fifties sounded the death knell for what must have been, in its day, a fine little town along the river. This entrance…
Stark Service Station and Garage
Stark, Kansas in Neosho County – The small town of Stark has better features than this old garage, but I was drawn to the colors of this old place. The real star of the town is Murphy’s Mercantile, Old Time General Store, Deli and Coffee Shop. The place is…
Vernon, Kansas
Also see Cheryl’s entry about Vernon on Flyover People Another view of the little brown church at Vernon Vernon School The interior of the school is now used to store agricultural equipment Vernon downtown
Burn Prep
Flint Hills, Chase County, Kansas – Ranchers prepare to burn a field of dry grass, as the spring prairie burns continue. That’s a water truck in the foreground.
Bones & Prairie Grass
Flint Hills, Chase County, Kansas
St. Elizabeth Statue
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, St. Elizabeth’s Church – The statue of St. Elizabeth of Hungary was sculpted by Guiseppi Costa in 1984, so it’s a recent addition to the century old chapel. The church and adjoining Crescent Hotel are gorgeous landmarks crowning…
Arkansas Mountain Fog
Buffalo River area, Arkansas – This is a view of the fog-wrapped woods along a mountain road. We spent a few days exploring upper Arkansas, journeying along the course of the Buffalo. Rain and clouded skies shrouded the landscape the entire trip, but it was still a…
Singer – Songwriter Night
Eureka Springs, Arkansas – Last night we happened across some great live music during a “Singer / Songwriter” night at the Marquee’s Pacific Rim Food restaurant in Eureka Springs. The town attracts lots of artists, including a community of musicians….
Past Gas
Neosho Falls, Kansas – Slowing being absorbed back into the elements, this seems to the be remnants of an old gas station. Cheryl thinks it was a Phillips 66 station.
Hole in the Roof
Barton Couty, Kansas
Garaged in Burdick
Burdick, Kansas