"if I went west, I think I would go to Kansas."
(Abe Lincoln, 1860)
Happy Kansas Day.
A list of some things I adore about this place.
- bluest & biggest sky
- tallgrass prairie
- turkey red wheat
- ad astra per aspera – to the stars, through adversity
- it has been home to generations of farmers, that I call family
- the smell of the green air, after a spring rain
- harvest time
- fireflies in the summertime
- the South wind
- huge backyards
- cottonwood trees
- zwiebach
- the Kansan spirit.
- I get to call it my home.
the sunsets
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the flint hills in the fall (the brown color up against the sea blue sky)
the way the flint hills in the spring make me want to get out of my car and roll around in them
pick a small town in ks-walk down main street
camping at clinton lake
the biggest half order of biscuits and gravy ever in Dodge City
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brilliant fall foliage and bittersweet growing in the trees
sunwarmed tomatoes in the summertime
sunsets that last an hour or more, uninterupted by those pesky mountains
freestaters
limestone architecture
Kansas Basketball
Jayhawk basketball (had to be repeated)
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The history and architecture of my first Kansas home, Fort Leavenworth
Driving South on 35 through the Flint Hills or West on 70 through the Konza Prarie
Hot, humid summers (no, really, I love them)
The people - who only honk to say hello or warn you of an impending collision and are fair if not if always friendly (though usually they are friendly as well)
Country roads and time to drive them
This picture: http://www.kansascity.com/445/story/465533.html
Today, the 8 Wonders of Kansas were named:
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In alphabetical order:
1)The world’s largest hand-dug well, Greensburg, Kan.
2)The Cheyenne Bottoms and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, Barton and Stafford counties.
3)The Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Abilene, Kan.
4)The Kansas Cosmosphere, Hutchinson.
5)The underground salt museum, Hutchinson.
6)Monument Rocks and Castle Rock, Gove County.
7)The Cathedral of the Plains, Victoria.
8)The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and the Flint Hills, Chase County, Kan.
traditions
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open skies...stars
the people
old buildings
sunflowers
brown wheat field blowing in the wind
friends
warm one day cold the next
my friend m5k reminded me that we forgot to add thunderstorms to the list.
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