Calm Waters
Lake Ouachita, Arkansas
Gas City Watertower
Gas City, Kansas A watertower makes a convenient billboard for the city. It usually has the town name, sometimes promotes the local athletic team, gets special treatment on holidays. Gas City is one of those that found a unique way to personalize the tower, painting…
Trimmin’ the Pork on Wall Street
Fort Scott, Kansas Wall Street is going up in smoke? We took a trip and checked for ourselves. Sugarfoot & Peaches BBQ, a small shop on Wall Street is putting smoke to good use, and diversifying its services with ribs, gumbo, brisket, sausage and Cajun boiled…
Bronson, Kansas
A full grain truck pulls into the elevators at Bronson, Kansas
Florence Elevator
This old beauty is near the railroad station in Florence, Kansas.
Lost Springs Ford
I posted a B/W photo of this old truck some time back, but it was its layers of color that stopped me.
Ancient Seabed
This is what you find if you look closely at the surface of limestone on Herington Reservoir Dam. Scale: This is a couple square inches of rock surface.Below: An overview of the dam rocks
Dam Tallgrass & Wildflowers
Herington Reservoir There is a gorgeous view of fields and tree-lined streams from the top of the Herington Reservoir dam. The wind sweeping through the tallgrass and September wildflowers was especially nice during my walk.
Burgess Marsh #5
Autumn fog on the wetlands, at the Flint Hills Wildlife Preserve near Hartford, Kansas
Lincolnville
Although there is a newer, substantial looking elevator area just north of this, I’m always drawn to the character and textures of the old stuff. I’m sure that really thrills people in the towns when I show the oldest, most run-down parts of their cities…
Rose Hips & Some Old Limestone
The combination of lichen covered stone and rose hips is really striking in the afternoon sun, glowing now along the roadsides of Wabaunsee County.
Sticks and Stones
Found art: driftwood and stone create random patterns on the Herington Reservoir dam. p.s. A sampling of my monochrome photos is available at Midwest Monochromes , in the Flyover People galleries collection. I feel pretty humble about offering it, when I see some of…
Country Driveway
This is somewhere out in the backroads of Wabaunsee County, Kansas. The colors and tones will seem very soft, but they capture the quiet presence of the place.
Window Fan
Dexter, Kansas Every now and then Kansas comes wrapped in an Andrew Wyeth tonality. Decades of sun-bleached prairie dust soften its simple forms with strokes of muted color, under a tobacco-tinted glaze.
Last Chance Station #2
This is found on the intersection of highway 4 and highway 15, on the edge of Elmo in Dickinson County.