Rainy Saturday

A rainy day here in SE KS. I went for a ride out to hike at Prairie Park. In between showers the sun would almost come out.

Indian Paintbrush is in bloom.

Dickcissel (Spiza Americana)

Other birds I saw included;
Common Yellow Throat (Geothlypis trichas)
Yellow Breasted Chat ( Icteria vivrens virens )
Eastern Meadowlark ( Sturella magma)
Brown Headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater ater) male and female.
Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
Wild Turkey (10) (Melegris gallopavo)
and lots of LBBs (little brown birds) too damn fast to ID.

Bison

My World Tuesday Tulip Time

It's Tulip Time in Topeka!

Lake Shawnee has some wonderful volunteers that care for all these beautiful tulips. We spent a short time enjoying these yesterday on the way to our nieces wedding.
Several creek beds flowed down to the lake under the shade of trees.

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My World Tuesday

Sunday morning found me on my own headed east to try out some fly fishing at Bennett Springs State Park near Lebanon Missouri. I had a cooler full of pb & j sandwiches, cold drinks, The Marshall Tucker band on the stereo and a few new flies to try out. In between casts I wandered around and took a few photos of other folks enjoying the beautiful spring day.


The Dogwoods are in bloom every where in the timber at this time of year.



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Skywatch Friday

Early Morning View
Lake Beaver Arkansas

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"You do your needed work out of love, the love that dares not speak its name, the love of spareness, beauty, open space, clear skies, and flowing streams, grizzly bear and mountain lion, wolf pack and twelve-pack, of wilderness and wanderlust and primal human freedom and so forth." Edward Abbey

Watery Wednesday

Nothings Biting
White River Arkansas

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Easter Sunday New Life

Silver Maple

Forsythia

Redbuds

Peach

Peach

Cherry sp.

The Cat that follows me everywhere; Stinky

Silver Maple

Forsythia

Some new life from a morning walk. Easter morning, a sun behind some high ice clouds, a southerly breeze and a feeling that life renews itself and rises from the ground. As I watched the sun reach above the clouds and begin to warm the pasture I remembered past Easter mornings, early mass with our daughters in new dresses, colored eggs, family egg hunts, the smells of meals cooking in the house. The girls are grown and have lives of their own, one about to move several states away, new life. They both will be here today for the afternoon one with her boyfriend from college and the other without her new husband who has to work today. They will be here for awhile and then off again to their new lives.

Wandering around Eureka

A few random photos from a walk around Eureka Springs Arkansas a few weeks ago. On St. Patricks Day we did the pub crawl but only managed to crawl to 2 pubs. These photos were taken the next afternoon.







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