they call it flyover country...

I've counted 20 jet contrails in the skies here in flyover country during the Rush Hour.

flyover country

 Jet Contrails in the West

 

short cut?

Jet contrails wrapped in plastic mary todd

20 second video of cool jet contrail HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p17WUefMpZY

Kansas Country Highway Sunset

The clouds got better and better. Will post a video tomorrow.

Flint Hills Farm at Winter's Dusk

and more HERE

Cat at Sundown and Farm Apocolypse

Art is everything and everywhere. Sundown on a farm is golden.

 sun makes everything golden.
the paint is actually very pale yellow.
please click to view large

 winter corn

Raptors in the Flint Hills of Kansas: Hawk Country on New Year's Day

A magnificent Bald Eagle sat in the Eagle Tree this morning and i wanted to bring a steak offering in exchange for the beauty of sun lighting up the Grand head.
As i'd approached the eagle tree, i looked, as always for a raptor; the tree is one mile from my house and as i neared, i realized there was indeed a bird there-- but it was growing larger, LARGER in my sight-- an eagle!? Yes!
(click here for a previous Bald Eagle viewing)

I was on a tight schedule (sigh) and only grabbed 2 distance pics. However, on the way home i took the following photos of a red-tailed hawk between the eagle tree and the homestead.

The untouched photos (canon) are followed by a few altered posters and the sunset is from this past week.
Click on the pic to view large please.

 hawk habitat

More eagle and hawk photos throughout this blog,
for example, HERE

 Hawk Poster by MTodd feel free to download and print yourself a copy...

Farms in Kansas: Beautiful Sunrise, Cows Mooing, and Clouds Screaming Color!

Even though my fingers were FREEZING i left the pile of warm cozy, ran outside and took some videos (posted below) of a typical fabulous Flint Hills Sunrise. I love the Konza Prairie! I love the Great Plains! (is Great Plain an oxymoron?)

Most Photos are untouched but shrunk.

 The morning moon seemed wrapped in a grainy fog.

 Dead Sunflowers Reach for Strange Clouds

 Sailfish in the Sky.

 Click on pic to view large.

 The view north.

 I will insert the videos after a couple of whimsy moments:

and in the daytime:





very Large File: Bare Trees in Morning Moon Light

The Flint Hills of Kansas: HERE

more moons HERE

December in the Flint Hills: Kansas Winter Distills the Heart into Great Plains

Geese and hawks, barns and silos, moon and stars, farms and windmills, wildcats, trees and grasses are painterly details for the Great Sky and the Great Plains.

the flint hills of kansas are

to the west of the osage questas

which run through lawrence and

in the middleof the Konza Prairie.

more geese HERE

and HERE

The Flint Hills of kansa are my back yard.

More Flint Hills click HERE  and
here:
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/thinking-about-japan-here-in-flint.html