4/1/23

 In my area of Kansas, with the coming of Spring comes Spring burns.  Ranchers and others burn off the prairie grasses to make the new grass emerge more quickly and to also keep unwanted things like Cedar trees from taking over.  I have always wanted to get some photos of this at night.  It is done at night a lot because the winds have a tendency to die down then and it is easier to control.  I finally had a chance this past Tuesday and this is one of the photos I was able to get.  You can see that it looks as if it is a ring of sorts.  They set back fires to keep it under control and they kind of meet together.  I took this image with my Pixel phone and it actually turned out better than my DSLR.  The Night Sight feature on a Pixel makes for some really nice photos in the dark I think.

5/27/18

I liked the look of this pot steaming over an open flame during an event at the Spring Valley Historical site.   It was Ham and Beans but I didn't get to have any.

4/11/16

Well, missed out on rain as usual these days.  Sigh.  This is not good.  I am having to water things because they are not getting their April showers.  My image today shows what our area is like when it is not windy out this spring.  Ranchers and Konza Prairie are doing their annual burns.  They burn off the old dried grass which blackens the soil which causes it to warm up quickly and promote new grass growth.  Studies on Konza show that Bison seek out these burned areas as their preferred grazing areas.  Burning also keeps down the growth of woody shrubs like Dogwood and also Cedar trees which grow like weeds and keeps the grassland predominant.