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Filed under: landscape on October 7th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

More wind turbines from the Elk River Wind Farm near Beaumont.

Filed under: landscape on October 1st, 2008 | No Comments »

Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette.

Gray sky over Fraser Hall, K.U. Sept. 13.
WAITING ON THE SKY
John Mayer has a song called “Waiting on the World to Change.”
I spent the first two weeks of September waiting on the sky to change.
For a fortnight, we were stalked by nimbostratus clouds.
These are [...]

Filed under: columns, landscape on September 30th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Elk River Wind Farm near Beaumont.
I was so busy concentrating this morning on wrestling with words… beating, pounding, clubbing a column into shape that I totally forgot about posting a post.
So, finally, here’s a picture of wind city.

Filed under: landscape on September 29th, 2008 | No Comments »

West and north of Latham is a cool stone bridge.

Filed under: landscape on September 22nd, 2008 | 2 Comments »

A field near Latham. Butler County.

Filed under: landscape on September 10th, 2008 | No Comments »

On Thursday, gas prices were down to $3.38 here in Emporia, so I said to Dave, how ’bout a road trip this weekend? And he said, yup. Then on Friday, gas prices went back up a bit, some places to $3.59. But on Saturday, we found it for $3.44.

So we sat down and looked at [...]

Filed under: landscape, traveling on August 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Creek bed. Open range. Chase County.

Filed under: landscape on August 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Wind turbines along the Lincoln/Ellsworth county line, just north of I-70.
I’m not sure I even want to post these pictures. I didn’t mind seeing the turbines out by Spearville. Those didn’t affect me negatively.
But here, it felt like someone took a permanent red marker and scribbled across the Smoky Hills.

Filed under: landscape on August 6th, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Teter Rock in Greenwood County.

Filed under: landscape, nature on August 6th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

My friend, Jay, steps into the photo to give Teter Rock some scale.

Filed under: landscape, nature on August 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Today’s Flyover People column as published in The Emporia Gazette:

A DAY IN THE HILLS
We bounced over a cattle guard. The landscape looked as rumpled as an unmade bed.
Grass was still June-green. Western ironweed bloomed like nobody’s business, tall stalks of purple bundles.
Where else on earth is the landscape this simple and this peaceful?
On [...]

Filed under: columns, landscape on August 5th, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Sometimes out on the open range in the Flint Hills, you’ll come across a calf standing in the road., You wait, and sooner or later they’ll get on their way. It’s not polite to say “moooo-ve.”

Filed under: landscape, nature on July 31st, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The views were great on Sunday’s trip through the Flint Hills of Chase, Lyon and Greenwood Counties.

Ironweed was blooming in abundance. Here’s ironweed, as seen on Mike Haddock’s great Kansas wildflower site.

Say, is that… Martin Johnson?
Oh, maybe not. (Martin Johnson is dead.)

Sandra and Jay survey the land.

It’s not just grass out here - there are [...]

Filed under: landscape on July 29th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

At Navarre, we saw a couple of pretty horses. We wanted to take photos of them back with the barns, but they came to the fence and were very friendly. See Dave’s photos.

Filed under: landscape on July 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment »