Rest Your Eyes, Refresh Your Heart, Clear Your Ears

I have just the thing. Give yourself permission for four and a half minutes to sit, listen, watch,
It Is OK to Be Here. You Are A Child of the Universe.
All is well.

The flint hills of kansas are my back yard HERE

Hiking in the Flint Hills: Prudence Come Out to Play (Konza Prairie Rocks

 and home again to lovely female cardinal

Dear Prudence

 

Songwriters: Mccartney, Paul; Lennon, John;

Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?  Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day

The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful and so are you

Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?
Dear Prudence, open up your eyes Dear Prudence, see the sunny skies The wind is low the birds will sing
That you are part of everything Dear Prudence, won't you open up your eyes? Look around round

(Round round round, round round) (Round round round, round round) Look around round round
(Round round round, round round) (Round round round, round round) 
Look around
Dear Prudence, let me see you smile
Dear Prudence, like a little child
The clouds will be a daisy chain
So let me see you smile again
Dear Prudence, won't you let me see you smile?

Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?
Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you
Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?

John Lennon

Flint Hills Farm at Winter's Dusk

and more HERE

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...

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

 

Flint Hills in the Morning: First Snow in Autumn

The early dusting of snow on the burnt orange flint hills was nice in the autumn sunrise. (The flint hills of kansas are MY BACK YARD)

 Click to view detail

Eastern View:

My Western View

Life in the Kansas Yard: Butterflies and Hummers and Hills Oh My (Albino hummer update)

The Flint Hills have a bounty that keeps giving. This is Butterfly Week.

Red Spotted Purple (a video HERE)

 more butterflies HERE

I saw 2 hummingbirds mating. they fly attched to one another like monarchs do.

 more hummingbirds here

more sunflowers HERE and big placemats HERE

 click to enlarge

the flint hills HERE

Here are some pics
 of the Albino Hummingbird a 15-year-old photographed. Sweet!