The Kansas Outback

     What a change about a year can make in the landscape.  Prior to June of last year, the Red Hills area was parched, tortured with over ...

Photo by Jim Mason      With this post I launch my selections of the 8 Natural Wonders of the Red Hills of Kansas. Perhaps you've he...

      Much is made of the problem of Nature Deficit Disorder (NDD) with today's profuse electronic distractions as well as other activit...

     Pollinators are in big trouble.  And if they are in trouble, humans are in trouble!  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that 75% of...

A continuing photo display of the incredible wildflower show in the Red Hills this year-- Fruits from last year's Silver-leaf Ni...

     Sometimes animals are just funny. Funny looking.  Funny acting. If you watch wild turkeys for very long, you see lots of goofiness.  Th...

     The most fascinating snake in my opinion is the Eastern Hog-nosed Snake.  Besides being a rather beautiful animal, this snake has a ver...