The Kansas Outback

      About 80 members of the Kansas Native Plant Society (KNPS) and others met in Pratt this weekend and enjoyed the fall bloom in the Red ...

     The Red Hills harbor many kinds of  animals.  Bats are among the most fascinating.  Over a half dozen of Kansas's 16 species can b...

     The Kansas Native Plant Society is coming to the Red Hills!  The regular fall meeting and field trips of the KNPS is meeting in Pratt ...

     The Wheel Bug is a great asset to any organic garden. Here I try to give some photographic justice to the intriguing nature of these i...

     Black swallowtails bring beauty and joy wherever encountered.  This is a photo essay of one of nature's most attractive insects ...

A recent tour of our country roads reminded me of why I hate Kansas so much.  See captions below for my explanations of my misery.   ...

      Am I really crazy?  I don't think so.  I find two things particularly fascinating.  One is a group of what I consider to be the...