Last day of September.

Just a beautiful early fall day here in SE KS. I finally spent some money on a new lens, telephoto you know. I had to try it out after supper.

The golden rod is full of busy beetles.

It is really lit up this time of year. 

"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." Walt Whitman

Skywatch Friday Episode 5 Week 11

A few skies from Southeast Kansas recently.

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Our World Tuesday; The Dewey Hotel

The Dewey Hotel located guess where? Dewey Oklahoma. Dewey at one time hosted one of the worlds largest Roundups (rodeo). The hotel was built by a gentlemen who the city of Bartlesville is named after. Its a wonderful three story place that takes you back to the old west.

The first floor has the restored office and kitchen, dining room, upstairs on the second floor are the first set small rooms guests stayed in. The wood floor creeks as you walk down the long hallway past the numbered doors.

 The third floor is where the men stayed, cowboys, rodeo stars and cattlemen. There was a private staircase out back that led up to this floor, and a gambling room. You could almost smell the cigars and whiskey from days gone bye.

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Things you come across on a gravel road #1. Camera critters

A coyote pup I came across while driving home the other day on a gravel road.

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Surprise sculpture park

While wandering thru Coffeyville Kansas recently I came upon this really unique sculpture park.

It sits right across the street from the community college building with the equally cool mural.
They all to seem to be mainly wood and maybe the work of more than one artist. Very cool.

I believe its on 8th street, stop by the next time you are cruising thru the metropolis of Coffeyville.

Early Morning on the Prairie

I have seemed to wander away from this blog for a while, new job, weather so hot and dry that trees are dying. Finally a week of relief and a chance to get away for a while. I recently began teaching at the high school level again, fourteen years chasing middle school students around had left me worn out. I am back teaching physics and chemistry and must admit I'm a little rusty but at the same time I am loving it. Change is good.

Some good friends of ours visited last weekend, we fished, hiked, picnicked, swapped stories of our grown children now all living away from home. 

It felt good to get out at dawn and walk out on the prairie.