We drove up to Alma, Kansas this weekend for a gravel bike race, stopping in Lawrence, KS. for lunch and a quick tour of where I grew up. We stopped by my old house, the new owners painting it yellow and adding a front porch and a bay window. For some reason, the house looks smaller than when I remembered it when I was little. Back then it looked SO big and had SO many trees in the front yard. It’s still very shady, just a bit shrunken looking. Lawrence itself has grown, almost reaching the outskirts of Topeka, the state capital.
But it was being back in the Flint Hills where I felt most at home. Meadowlarks were singing their hearts out, big puffy white clouds danced across the sky, Black Eyed Susans and thistles and a myriad of other wildflowers were everywhere you looked and you could look forever, the prairie never ever ending.
David and I took a walkabout after dinner Friday night when we reached Alma and I took nearly 400 pictures of the little town. I’ll get to editing those later this week and will add those to my Small Town America collection as soon as I finish. As for this little “100 Days of Summer” project I hope to get back on track soon, but until I do, I will be posting some daily photos from this latest Kansas trip. Also, I’m so far off the rails I’m not even quite sure what day I’m on anymore!