Ah, we’re back to spring cloud formations this afternoon. Wild shapes are floating around, different from the flat-line gray clouds that come with winter.
Snow Day
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: an old Unruh family photo SNOW DAY For hours, the snow falls. City crews plow, one blade following another. Shovels scrape concrete; a mountain of snow rises alongside driveways and sidewalks. Classes are cancelled. Again. Snow days pile up on the spring calendar, extending the …
They Came to Stay
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: “They Came to Stay” by Greg Todd, Sherman County Courthouse, Goodland. THEY CAME TO STAY As last week’s winter storm began to move across the state, my mind returned to a trip I took to northwest Kansas last fall. Traveling I-70, it was around Russell …
Season’s first accumulation
Don’t know that it’s a record, but today, Jan. 10, is the first real accumulation of the season. I’d say we have had 4 inches so far. Still snowing off and on. More expected here in Emporia today.
Plumb Hall
I took some photos of EUS’s Plumb Hall a couple of weeks ago when I was there to speak to a class. It was definitely fall then. Today, I think we’re doing the switchover to winter.
Autumn Leaves
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: AUTUMN LEAVES We handle the many daily aspects of our lives: work, family, meals, going to the dentist, Monday wash day, Tuesday ironing. (Ironing? Yeah, I’m just kidding.) Anyway, we’re busy people. We have things to do. Meanwhile, quietly, the calendar runs in the background …
Happy Summer Solstice
Springtime in Kansas
I wrote a springtime column once called “Stop the Calendar.” The best days of the year are usually in May and June.
Wild and crazy tulips
Colorful tulips brighten the corner at 11th and Commercial in downtown Emporia. This flower bed is a gift to Emporia from Plum Bazaar. Yay, spring!
In full bloom
The hard winter must have been good for blooming things – because trees and shrubs and flowers are going crazy this year. It’s gorgeous around here.