Green, Green Kansas

[Bruce Day]

Kansas is often brown this time of year but we have had so much rain it is green all the way across. SW Kansas just had 3" of rain on the milo and corn with growing heads.

Bird counts ( informal) are up, no bad hailstorms, decent weather all summer, and it loooks to be a good year.

Have been out in western Kansas working. Not all work of course, part of it initial planning a horse trip into northern New Mexico. Pull a 4 horse trailer or two and go way into the Sangre de Cristos into the Valle Vidal( Valley of Life). One of the the most remote and beautiful areas.

A few pictures of Kansas Chase county rodeo grounds, one of the great little small town rodeos where the cowboys and cowgirls are off the local ranches and gallop around the arena with an American flag and everybody stands and sings the Stars Spangled Banner and any little kid in the audience if he or she wants can line up to run out in the arena and wrestle and tie up a calf or even ride a bucking calf. Some of those kids wear belt buckles about bigger than they are.

Photo 1. Getting your picture here is better than the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Photo 3. Come on down Sept 19.

Photo 2. Just a woven wire fence separates the fence hangers from the action.