Outdoor Wednesday - a short trip through the beautiful state of Kansas!

I'm not a tour director, but I think in my next life, I'd like to be one. I have taken photos all of my life, with my first camera purchase being around age 7. I was the girl on the bus with the camera in grade school, the young lady with the camera at church when in Jr. High, the young woman with the camera at every event possible in High School, and the Mom who took photos of everything their kids ever THOUGHT of doing when they were growing up. So, it stands to reason that as I travel for my job, I carry a camera with me ALL the time. I see so many beautiful sites, people, memories, places, animals, and things that I can't possibly take photos of them all, but believe me DIGITAL is a God-send for people like me! As I drive down the road, unless I'm in a terrible hurry, I pull over to take photos of many things. So, grab a drink and sit back, we're going on a tour of Kansas. I will tell you where things are located (if I remember) as I go along, and if you want any further information PLEASE leave me a comment and I promise I will answer. Click on any of the photos to make them large enough you can see the detail. So here goes:

This field of sunflowers is found in the north central part of the state, on Highway #9, near Glen Elder. Did you know that fields of sunflowers always face the east? And of course with every rule there's an exception as you can see in the photo. There was a rogue in this field!

Sunflowers are such happy flowers, aren't they?

This church is located in Marysville, located in the north central part of Kansas. (Highway 36).

Bread Bowl Mound located south of Highway 36 in Phillips County, north west/central Kansas, about 3 miles from my house.

The windmill photo was taken along Highway 383, in northwest Kansas, one Friday afternoon on my way home from work.I wish I could mimic the incredible crisp sound that wheat makes when it's dry and blowing in the breeze. It brings back memories of my childhood when the harvestors would come through town, and cut wheat in the area.

As the song goes - THESE are "amber waves of grain".
This church, labeled "Cathedral of the Plains" is located in Victoria. It is in central Kansas, along I -70.

I would be a very bad tour director if I didn't point out to you how in every photo, the sky is clean and BLUE. I think if I were to pick a favorite thing about Kansas it would be just that- the sky.

Central Kansas, along I-70.

We do have several interstate highways, this one happens to be I-70 also, we are heading east but are west of Topeka, in central/eastern Kansas.

No one can say that all the houses in Kansas are old farm houses, with cows around them. (Although there are a lot that are!) This one is actually a train, and is located on highway 54, south of Lawrence (home of Kansas University- GO Jayhawks!)

This was taken a little ways (1/2 block) from our house.

This is a favorite place for my Sr.'s to have their photos taken, also just down the draw from our house. Within a few days after this was taken, the stone wall on the left caved in, so I have a sneaking suspicion that one of these days the railroad will be replacing it with something "new and improved". Won't that be sad?

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