M. Silver's Journal: Kansas scenery

This is probably the prettiest time of year around here. Kansas' state flower is the sunflower - not the gargantuan single-flower type, but the only-distantly-related roadside sunflower bush, with dozens, sometimes hundreds, of smaller but still classically gold-and-brown blooms. They line the highway from here to Hutchinson, a trip I took yesterday. One tableau in particular caught my eye, and we'll have to stop by the roadside with the camera tomorrow when we take that trip again.

Beyond the sunflower hedge of green, gold and brown, a field of ripening milo was a sea of variegated henna. All it lacked was good sunset lighting. Kansas is not a spectacularly colorful state, so you take these sorts of scenes when you can find them.

The rest of the trip was pleasantly pastoral... not your boring I-70 stretches of vast, undifferentiated fields, but lots of smaller, older farms. It's Mennonite country up there. A part of my would love to throw over the whole technological thing and learn how to farm. The other part of me, of course, would be saying "But you can't get broadband out there!"