Sunday, November 26, 2006
The lone prairie
I believe I mentioned something a while ago about Michigan having a rather gradual and subtle landscape compared to Massachusetts. Well, western Kansas, where I have been recently, is not just a subtle landscape, but an austerely subtle one.
The whole state may be largely flat, but it’s tilted. It rises fairly evenly and gradually from an average elevation of less than 1000 feet in the east to more or less 4000 feet at the Colorado border. Mt. Sunflower, the highest point in the state, tops out at 4039 feet.
This picture was taken not far from Mt. Sunflower, as a matter of fact, on Kansas 27 north of Sharon Springs. The structure on the horizon is a grain elevator, one of those that Capote describes as "rising as gracefully as Greek temples." And speaking of whom, Sharon Springs is about 75 miles, as the buzzard flies, from Holcomb, where the Clutters were murdered.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Squirrel butt
There's not really a lot more to say than that. Sitting on the roof of our front porch.
