Archive for March 2010
Following our somewhat sneaky US-77 under 5 o’clock grand darkness in the morning was quite a workout. So when I finally reached Marysville, Kansas, an exciting town known for its Pony Express Home Station No. 1, I wasn’t expecting any trivial challenge from US-77 at all. I missed the turn. O-kay-O-kay. I said it. I drove straight-ahead like a brave young squirrel on the Pony Express Highway. I drove pass...
More →Making some field recordings of Kings Creek near Hokanson Homestead in Konza Prairie was both mentally and physically therapeutic. The stream benevolently bequeathed a serene luminosity of a quiet song and the reflection of gorgeous afternoon sunlight. I was content and still, minus my understandable hungriness after a long day of travel, silently reciting Australian poet Henry Lawson’s The Song And The Sigh as a pre-snack-time tribute to a perfect...
More →Trying to capture the exquisiteness of a building as magnificent as the Nebraska State Capitol was principally an unachievable attempt. For years, I walked by this structure semi-regularly, with my just-in-case-camera all set and ready to shoot; I was never able to produce anything close to adequate. My latest attempt was no exception. The building, brushed with beautiful spring sunlight, reared into the evening sky and quietened the surroundings with...
More →The Tuttle Creek Wildlife Area of Kansas Flint Hills tunefully dipped herself into a pool of gorgeous mid-afternoon sunlight. Ubiquitous exquisiteness hushed my mind and I suddenly felt abnormally connected to peculiar moments in Haruki Murakami’s short story A Perfect Day for Kangaroo. A perfect day for conversations with fluffy cotton candy clouds, I mumbled. Walking aimlessly in this area was like a good chat with the quintessential beauty of...
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