(I didn’t want to use a flash while the man was speaking, thus the blurry photo. With a point-and-shoot camera, that’s what you get.) Paul Harris, a British journalist with The Observer, spoke this afternoon at Washburn University in Topeka. His topic: “What’s the Matter with Everyone Else?: A Foreign Perspective on Kansas.” His talk …
Chipping Away
This straight hoe has been a somewhat effective ice-chipping tool. This is compacted sleet – from the first storm two weeks ago. We got about 2 inches of sleet then – covered last weekend by 6 inches of snow- and while the snow has been shoveled off, the sleet is now compressed down to about …
COMMENTS LOST AND FOUND!! MY APOLOGIES.
YIKES! Well folks, I don’t know how to run this new show yet. Some posts made by y’all over the past few days were stored in a hidden lock-box. 🙁 And I just found them. Seven messages have been freed. Sorry, Heineken160, englishbloke and Helianthus43. I don’t think it will happen again!
Leftovers
It’s been five weeks since the winter solstice. Light hangs on a little longer, warming the earth for a few more minutes each day. Around town, snow is piled 7-feet-high in the corners of parking lots. The snow, as fresh as clean sheets when it fell last Saturday, is now diesel-covered and grimy. Yards, smooth …
Accordian
Opening Day of Parliament The Afghanistan National Band plays for the event. Brad Harzman sent this photo. As part of his duties, Harzman, a member of the Kansas National Guard Band, is helping to develop this band. “There’s about a five-year dead spot in Afghan music, because when the Taliban was in charge all music …
Online
This morning’s Kansas Day radio commentary can be heard here. And you can read along.
On the Horizon
This week’s Flyover People in The Emporia Gazette: “ON THE HORIZON”
On the Radio – Wednesday
This just in… I’ll be on Kansas Public Radio Wednesday morning with a (pre-) Kansas Day commentary. The most likely times are 6:35 a.m. and (repeated at) 8:35 a.m. UPDATE: SOMETIME BETWEEN 6:30 AND 7:00 AND SOMETIME BETWEEN 8:30 AND 9:00 You can listen online. Or hear it on the radio at: 89.7 – Emporia …
Green
Yeah, green. And take a look at the horizon.
Plowed
After Saturday’s snow, I wrote that I didn’t think the city would clear the streets. I was wrong. They have plowed and hauled off snow on the major streets. So, yay! Way to go, street guys!
Monday morning
Same world. Just colder, slower. Whiter. Today, a Monday, the town moves again. Cars drive by, buses. The sanitation truck grinds and clangs as its mechanical arm lifts a gray trash bin from the curb. The 8-year-old neighbor girl runs off to school, books tight in the crook of her left arm. A navy coat …