Rabbit Trails

  On our way to South Dakota, we stopped to see my parents. It's a long drive.......we don't mind it though. I love the red Mountain Dew....it tastes good and helps keep me awake. Actually, it keeps me awake all night. Even when it's OK to sleep. So this is what I looked at. The bottom of the top bunk. I don't like bunk beds. Just sayin. When we're in Seward, we stay in a *Hunting Lodge*..... it's really just a house that a hunter bought.... and if it's not duck or pheasant season, we can stay there. That's about the extent of my care for hunting seasons.....        I still find it kind of funny to see *towers* in the middle of fields.  They seem to be as necessary as wheat.    This was about the extent of Autumn in Central Kansas.      This house is behind my mom and dad's house. Loretta, an old lady that used to run the liquor store, used to live here. Then my friend, R...

A couple of very Kansas things!  Sunflower and cottonwood tree leaf.  I didn't think much of cottonwoods when I was surrounded by them.......when I visit Kansas I love to hear them rustling in the wind.  The leaves are heavy and waxy....and there is nothing like the sweet smell of the trees....and nothing worse than the cotton flying in the summer into your nose, your screen doors and a.c. filters. I don't know if the streets had names when I was growing up.  We had box numbers for our mail and I liked to get the mail in the mornings when I wasn't in school.  I knew the combination and thought I was pretty neat when I could actually make the little door open. This would be an easy tag to remember........we are getting tags tomorrow for our new vehicle.  I can't wait to see what they look like. Telling my dad good-bye.  I do NOT like to tell my dad good-bye.  Not one little bit. The last look through the screen door at my ...

 On our way Monday morning. I don't even remember where this was?  I'm sure I got regular.... Always the funny girl.... I see Kansas coming! Since I've lived in quite a few states and visited lots of others, I've noticed that skies and clouds and storms and rain and lightning and weather is SO different.  Seasons, temps, humidity, plants, animals, birds, trees, flowers, gardens, houses...........they are all so different, but we are all Americans.  Well, most of us. This clock is my dad's most recent project.  I love to see the things he makes.......he loves to tinker. I spent most of my growing up years in a little town called Seward.  Dirt streets, wheat harvest, friends down the street, a gas station for pop and sunflower seeds, lots of snow in winter, bikes in the summer, cottonwood trees for swings, rocks to find, streets to walk, mulberry trees, lilacs to smell, cats and dogs, chickens in the back yard, gardens, sprink...