Beauty of the Prairie

[bojojoti]

My photos of the prairie are so inadequate in showing its beauty.  Even if I weren't shooting through a dirty window at 80 mph, I wouldn't be able to come close to Judd Patterson's photography.  Judd was a little boy in our old neighborhood.  He has grown up to be a fine artist.  I contacted him by e-mail to ask permission to share some of his

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[brendamom]

These are amazing. Just what I needed today.

[bojojoti]

I'm so glad. Feeds the soul, such beauty.

[auntconi]

Absolutely awesome!!!
Thank you so much for sharing, and 'thanks' to Judd for giving you permission to do so!
I agree with brendamom - "just what I needed today"
((hugs))

[bojojoti]

I'm glad you enjoyed the photos and poetry. Judd does beautiful work.

[julia_here]

That first photo reminds me of driving back into Pullman through Union Flat Valley on Easter Morning, 1978, although it lacks the Prairie Falcolns chasing love-mad pheasants alone the creek.

Julia, my tiny prairie is gone, filled up with just more suburbs

[bojojoti]

If you go to Judd's website, he has some amazing shots of raptors you might enjoy--just type in which bird you are interested in seeing into the search box.

Union Flat Valley must be very beautiful.

[julia_here]

It's gorgeous- there are pine woods on thesteeper north-facing slopes, and occassional stretches of Channeled Scablands sidechannel; the last time we were through, there were buffalo at one of the waterholes.

Julia, unlike most of the Palouse, it's a rocky place, so the big wheat fields are outside of the valley.

[curiouswombat]

Beautiful - for some reason, probably to do with text books at school, I had never thought of the prairies having such lovely soft rolling slopes - I have a whole new mental image of them now.

[bojojoti]

People envision "flat" when they think of Kansas, but we are a large state and vary greatly from one area to another. I looked at Wiki, and discovered that the Isle of Man has 221 square miles to Kansas' 82,277 square miles, so that's a great deal of land with three different climate zones: humid continental, semi-arid steppe, and humid subtropical

[curiouswombat]

I am envious of your space - there are times when I wish I could drive for more than an hour without going around in a circle or getting on a boat for three or four hours!

I love your pictures showing the sunflowers near Salina - but they look like they are on pretty flat land - that you had rolling hills in 'prairie' hadn't occurred to me before. I would feel more at home than I thought, if there are hills.

I will have to go back to a childhood copy of Little House on the Prairie and read it with a different mental picture.

[bojojoti]

And I look at your photos of rolling hills, pastoral scenes, tropical flora, and the ocean, and feel as though you live in a very enchanted place

[t_jay]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bojojoti]

So beautiful!