Kansas Prairie

[Bruce Day]

KANSAS

Savannah, Santa Fe, Montana
Laurel Canyon, Susquehanna
San Francisco or Manhattan
Eat your heart out, I'm in Kansas

I'm in Kansas,
Handsome Kansas
In the land of long romances
Fertile plants and cash finances
Handsome mansions, the advance
Of man's expansion here in Kansas,

Rembrandt, Cezanne, could've painted Kansas
The landscape's like the south of France is.
Chopin would have written dances
Had he hung his pants in Kansas.

All the saints, including Francis,
Prayed that if the Good Lord grants us
Second chances, could we
Transubstantiate to Kansas?

by Garrison Keillor

[Dean Romig]

Great pictures Bruce!

I see Charlie's still wearing the L.L. Bean "Maine Hunting Boots" he got at the Silent Auction some years back.

[charlie cleveland]

kansas is one beautiful state and the hunting is great too..looks like i see calvin humberg with bruce and charlie...bruce sure showed some nice territory.... charlie

[Angel Cruz]

Beautiful!!! But picture number 9 is what keeps me down south.

[Drew Hause]

Kenneth S. Davis
"I've never met a Kansan anywhere whose heart wasn't buried in Kansas."

Flinthills in the spring

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Fall on the Konza Prairie

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Hodgeman Wildlife Area, southeast of Jetmore, KS courtesy of Maynard Reece Byrd

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More pics here
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[Mills Morrison]

Beautiful photos!

[Ed Blake]

What did ya'll do with all the trees? :-)

[Kenny Graft]

Where in Kansas are the hunting pics taken / Are the pics from this year? We have a 1st week December planed...We normally hunt hill city area....Everyone says few birds this year....................Thanks Kenny

[Drew Hause]

"From the upper branches of the cottonwood trees overhead -- whose shimmering, tremulous leaves are hardly ever quiet, but if the wind stirs at all, rustle and quiver and sigh all day long -- comes now and then the soft melancholy cooing of the mourning dove, whose voice always seems far away."
Theodore Roosevelt, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail

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[Pete Lester]

Nice photos but I have never forgotten some interesting facts about Kansas I learned when stationed there with the USAF. The state tree is the telephone pole and the state bird is the mosquito :rotf:

I was also told Kansas is not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.

[wayne goerres]

Strange but that is the state bird for louisana too.

[Mills Morrison]

I thought the Wicked Witch was the state bird of Kansas. The mosquito is the state bird of Georgia

[Drew Hause]

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[Daryl Corona]

We must be back in Kansas Dorothy, I see a S. Neglecta. Nice to be home Auntie Em.:) Those Meadowlarks once drove my young lab pup nuts until he figured he could'nt catch them and we would'nt shoot them.

[charlie cleveland]

ow... my grandson came home one evening telling me of all the quail he was seeing kinda got my attention we grabbed our guns and off we went it turned out they were meadow larks. wish i could have took a picture of his face he was so imbarrassed... charlie

[wayne goerres]

At least he knows he should be looking for quail.

[Drew Hause]

Back when the KS limit was 12 quail, a fella stopped at a check in station on I-70 during deer season to show off his 12...all Meadow Larks...$100 each :shock:

[Mills Morrison]

My wife and I really have the itch to come out west and hunt pheasants and maybe sharptails. Not this year, but hopefully soon. Is all the hype about South Dakota justified or are there good places elsewhere too? From these photos, I could go with Kansas

[Phil Yearout]

Bruce and Drew, would you please quit broadcasting it?! I remember a day afield when my late father-in-law, noting the over-abundance of plates from a neighboring state, said disgustedly, "I feel like I'm in downtown Denver!"

[Drew Hause]

Kansas 'farmers' likely have an advanced degree from KU or K-State and don't take kindly to some sport from Johnson Co. talking down to them, when one of their kids is likely to be the sport's senior partner at Spencer Fane Britt & Browne in KC or boss at Sprint:nono:

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A bit of humility will go a long way out on the prairie. Phil's pic

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