PrairieDust visual journal

photographer Dave Leiker

Parked until Spring

Parked until Spring

This is how I’m feeling at the moment, just in holding pattern here until the landscape wakes and warms.
Country Road – North

Country Road – North

A mid-winter haze mutes the landscape, and this was photographed through the dirty window of a friend’s Jeep as we plowed down a Flint Hills backroad— that’s mostly what makes it look like a watercolor.
Goose Launch

Goose Launch

Kansas Farm Pond – Moving slowly, I attempted to sneak up on hundreds of buoyant Canada geese this week. A few crunchy steps in the winter grass was enough to put them all to flight. It was a grand sight, full of crazy noise as they spread the alarm.
Miller Fire Dept (redo)

Miller Fire Dept (redo)

Miller, Kansas   It’s a challenge to do a photo of this site that looks, um…. attractive. Still, I thought you might want to see what the whole building looks like. I had a BW version up for awhile but it looked way too dismal this morning, so it was...
Fire Hose

Fire Hose

Again from the old Miller fire department, a couple spools of hose are still in the garage.
Siren Button

Siren Button

Miller, Kansas – This siren button must have set the entire community into motion, and is still mounted on a stone wall on the remnants of an old fire station. Not to worry, the town has a new station now – the Louis & Florence Rathke Firehouse (shown below...