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 Ortiz]

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



Fall on the Konza Prairie



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



More pics here
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/20611291

http://docs.google.com/document/pub?...RP8RxdCmmQ3Ct0

[Mills]

Beautiful photos!

[Ed Blake]

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

[SXS OHIO]

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

[J.B. Books]

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

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