Looks like autumn. Feels like autumn. Today is cool and cloudy, rain expected. The photo was taken at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.
Fossil hounds
Here’s another photo from Saturday’s geology hike at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. Rex Buchanan of the Kansas Geological Survey points out fossils embedded in a piece of limestone to Maddie and Tracy Simmons.
Flint Hills Geology
Saturday morning, Rex Buchanan and Bob Sawin of the Kansas Geological Survey led about 30 people on a geology hike at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Strong City. Rex Buchanan is the associate director for public outreach for the Kansas Geological Survey; Bob Sawin is a research associate for the geology extension. The KGS …
Southwind Trail
House of limestone, Cottonwood limestone to be exact. This is the 1881 house at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. Off to the north of the house is the Southwind Nature Trail. Follow that trail and you’ll find… Maximillian sunflowers. Pitcher sage. Turning sumac leaves. Sumac. And off in the distance, the limestone schoolhouse. Indian grass, …
Sunflower Season
I think this is called whole-leaf rosinweed. And this, I believe, is the plains sunflower. They’re growing wild and tall out in the country. An excellent reference book/website is: Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas by Michael John Haddock of K-State.
Purple Sky
This is my new favorite photo from Dave: Sunset over Windmill, taken in Chase County.
Monument Rocks
Out in Western Kansas … This is the road to Monument Rocks in Gove County. I hate to say that Monument Rocks is out in the middle of nowhere, but it kinda is. It’s west of US 83 about six or seven miles as I remember. You take dirt/sand roads to get there. The town …
Flat enough for ya?
These photos were taken in Finney County, north of Garden City. OK, the land looks flat, but there were slight rises in the earth here and there. Winter wheat. Western Kansas has sand roads, not the killer chert like we have here in the Flint Hills- stuff you’d never walk on with bare feet, not …
Landscapes
A wheat field in Finney County. Now most people would see this photo taken in Scott County and say that Western Kansas is flat. Hahahahahahaha. Kansas is so not flat. A few miles down the road, you get this…. See, not flat at all. Not in the least! Hills exist – they’re just below the …
Hunting the Kansas Playa
Today’s Flyover People column: “Hunting the Kansas Playa.”
Another Sunset
A photo I took over a year ago. I took it somewhere out west – Rice or McPherson County, probably. Somewhere along U.S. 56.