My get pushed challenge from Oriahna Perez @oreos808 was to photograph Kansas landscape, so on Friday I headed out to the Konza Prairie Biological Station and walked the trail. I couldn't produce the snow she was hoping to see, just the brown, winter prairie. It was a beautiful day, in fact. After some pretty chilly weather the previous week it had been warming up and on Friday I only needed my hooded sweatshirt (though there was, in places, a good stiff Kansas breeze). This is looking back down the trail from a vantage point part of the way up to the top of this hill. Another view, looking up the hill here: http://365project.org/mcsiegle/365/2015-01-17
@oreos808 Here is one of the shots I took in response to your challenge. Sorry there's no snow. :-(
Well, sort of sorry...Actually, it was so perfectly beautiful out, I'm not at all sorry. [she says, selfishly]
@mothermalarky Kansas landscape is more varied than many people imagine. There are great stretches of flat, flat, flat out west -- which is what a lot of people think of. I live in the Flint Hills, which is wonderfully rolling hills. I love them because they're NOT covered with trees, so I can see the sensuous shape of the land better (and because I grew up here and one tends to love their own spot on the globe). In the northwest corner of the state there are the Arikaree Breaks, which are quite dramatic -- look to me sort of like really deeply eroded land.
Well, sort of sorry...Actually, it was so perfectly beautiful out, I'm not at all sorry. [she says, selfishly]