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the old mill - cedar point kansas
the old garage or ?? - cedar point kansas
tallgrass prairie national preserve - kansas
it was a good weekend. my poet and i escaped for a couple of days to the prairie, getting (completely) lost on dirt roads, re-visiting old ghost towns, visiting a new ghost town (that was more meth-labby than ghostly to me. eep!) and hiking on the prairie in flower forests. i was only dizzy once and did not eat any potato chips or salt. i am trying to be good and healthy, as my body seems to be not as cooperative with sloppy treatment as only a few years ago i could get away with. i wish i could make proper photographs of the prairie. it is a wonderland out there and my images will not show it. many varieties of sunflowers, pinktipped grasses, red sumac, white asters of all sizes, prairie broom, some kind of blue lobelia, blazing star, thistle, goldenrod and so on and on and on. damn it was gorgeous. i wish you could see.
then betsy turned 24 yesterday. how does *that* happen?? so quickly?
20091026 12:30 am
Forgive my not having been by as I see you have posted several new ones and of them, though it is hard to choose, I love the old mill - cedar point kansas, the best. There is that romantic and nostalgic ambiance I so grave and you have found it in your own back yard. For here in California, there is nothing like this.
Thank you for sharing.
Egmont
20091027 10:04 am
hi Egmont, thank you for dropping by - *anytime* - i also love that old mill image. it is a rather strange find for even this part of the country, it reminds me of new england somewhere - or europe. it was a very hard capture for me, as i could not get close and i usually prefer to capture structures straight-on, but it was impossible here, so i just went with the angle i could get and ended up liking it anyway!