Wichita’s Botanica Gardens
It's 9am on a Saturday. Temperature is in the low 90's, humidity approaching 80%. A hipster in a long sleeve...
Kansas
Nicodemus
"I am anxious to reach your state ... because of the sacredness of her soil washed by the blood of...
Butterfly fly away
The screen door creaked slowly open, then slammed shut with a loud bang behind me. I was the first visitor...
the character of Topeka
Some define a city by its people. Others by its history, architecture or surrounding landscape. I found that in the...
Keeper of the Plains
It was a cloudless summer Saturday as I found my way along the banks of the Arkansas river. No real...
how avoiding Twisters threw me into the new Big O
Sunday night and the wind is violently shaking the hotel windows and snapping tree branches across corn fields and empty...
listening to the past on the Santa Fe trail
The sounds of a million hooves rumbling in the tall prairie grasses. The great American Bison. The clack of wooden...
the murders of Holcomb
"The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas. A lonesome area that other Kansans call...
The Flint Hills of Kansas
Beauty is all about your perception, what you choose to see, and how it will affect you. The Flint Hills...
in Colby Kansas…
The great plains of the midwest always leave my pensive, thoughtful and somewhat sad. The people that live in such...