Wichita’s Botanica Gardens

Advertisements It’s 9am on a Saturday. Temperature is in the low 90’s, humidity approaching 80%. A hipster in a long sleeve flannel shirt and knitted beanie, strapped with his filming devices, approaches the Botanica Gardens of Wichita. He has the time. Existentially, don’t we all….. Kansas is known as the Sunflower State, and this monikerContinue reading “Wichita’s Botanica Gardens”

Butterfly fly away

Advertisements The screen door creaked slowly open, then slammed shut with a loud bang behind me. I was the first visitor in the Botanica Gardens butterfly house this morning, and with a camera as my butterfly net, I set out to capture these creatures. The butterfly house appears empty though as I first enter, and IContinue reading “Butterfly fly away”

Keeper of the Plains

Advertisements It was a cloudless summer Saturday as I found my way along the banks of the Arkansas river. No real destination in mind, just a few hours to kill before my flight home from a long week of work. I stumble upon the Keeper of the Plains, a statue built by Native American artistContinue reading “Keeper of the Plains”

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