India – Rainy Day Stream Explorations #1

India – Rainy Day Stream Explorations #1

Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat, near Matfield Green, Kansas – India and her family rose before dawn to watch prairie chickens do their colorful mating dances at a lek on the Jane Kroger ranch. Afterward her father, India, and I explored a stream on the grounds of the...
Greening of the HIlls

Greening of the HIlls

A touch of water coursing through the ravine kick-starts chlorophyll production and the greening of the Flint Hills, west of Matfield Green. Soon the entire landscape will glow with the color of fresh grass. A few beer cans mean someone else stopped for a visit, or...
A Working Landscape

A Working Landscape

You are warmly invited to the opening of “A Working Landscape” featuring 22 of my images. The show is installed at Pioneer Bluffs, just to the north of Matfield Green, Kansas. The opening party is Saturday afternoon, from 3 to 5 p.m. Anna Patricia Keller...
Green Lacewing

Green Lacewing

Tracking down and photographing insects is among my favorite things to do. So, now that bug season is upon us, I can be found nosing around in brush and weed patches. The green lacewing is a tiny, fragile insect. Overall length is just at 1/2 an inch. That’s a...
Feeding Time

Feeding Time

Milk, gathered from one of the mama goats earlier, is hand-fed to the kid goats by Dennis Wiley. View the slideshow.
Rain Drenched Ravine

Rain Drenched Ravine

West of Matfield Green, Kansas – Spring rains are nurturing life in the Chase County Flint Hills. Music of the riffles fills the air, and there are even small fish darting among the rocks. That surprised me since these ditches were dry as bone not long...