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Ancient Rocks and Air Travel

A friend of mine tipped me off about this otherworldly place; it’s just a few miles off the main highway but if you’re headed north, there’s not a sign to let you know it’s even there.

The middle part of the country is often referred to as “flyover country” and on this morning, the jets were busy doing just that.

Monument Rocks National Natural Landmark
near Oakley, Kansas
photographed 12.7.2020

At first light

We had to make a sad trip earlier this month, to Nebraska for my father-in-law’s funeral. (He got COVID and then it got him.) We spent the night in Kansas on the way up, and even though the trip was sad, the morning light was glorious.

Garden City, Kansas
photographed 12.7.2020

still surviving on the street

My reader(s) who live in cold climates would probably not be as enchanted as I was by this angular ice that I found the other morning in a gutter. But on the other hand, that same reader might be amazed at tomorrow’s post.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.5.2020

Vapours

This year has felt this way – what little bits of light we get quickly turn to vapors and are gone, and all the while dark clouds lurk.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.5.2020

both graceful and dangerous

My photographic eye was caught by the contrasts in the sweep of razor wire – it’s so graceful as it arches over the barbed wire, yet so deadly. No new ground here – either philosophically or photographically; it was just something I saw.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.5.2020