I have an old car that just got running again after sitting for a few years. I want to take it on a trip so I have been taking it out for drives around sunset lately to make sure things are good with it and also to enjoy the view. This is the sunset at Milford Lake a little over a week ago.
It's a double digit day today! 😁 Today's image is from Kansas City and the World War 1 Museum from the entrance side. It began life as the Liberty Memorial to honor the 441 local Kansas Citians who lost their lives in the war in 1926. The museum was closed in 1994 for renovations and in 2006, it opened as a modernized version. It holds the most comprehensive collection of WWI artifacts and documents in the world and was designated the national museum in 2004 by congress. The tower is 265 feet tall.
Today's image is of the view from Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri looking south. The World War I can be seen on the upper right. The clock in the foreground is partially original but the works are not, I don't believe. The building on the left is a hotel I once stayed in and got a night shot of KC.
It's a double digit day! 😁 This past week I went to the World War 1 Museum in Kansas City and also to Union Station which can be seen in this photo promoting the Chiefs. I found it a bit surprising that they were promoting them as the Chiefs are moving to Kansas and this is Missouri. It's all weird an I really don't care. 😆 Anyway, I took this image from on top of the museum which has a concrete courtyard and a great view. There is a tower you can go up in for a higher view but I didn't find it necessary. The Western Auto sign seen on the right, was recently restored to full operating condition and financed by the homeowners in the building it sits atop. Very cool to keep the iconic sign going even though the company does not exist any longer.
While in Minnesota recently, there were some interesting skies due to storms around the area. One evening I was out on my bike to possibly get a nice sunset photo and was rewarded with this exceptionally vibrant sky with neat cloud formations.
While I was in Minnesota, I was working the Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion. During some times of the show, some storms were in the area but missed the showgrounds for the most part. This was good as some areas received quite a bit of rain, like 7 inches in one spot. Crazy. It did make for some very interesting cloud formations.
I had to make an unscheduled trip to Minnesota recently. I saw numerous Sunflower fields in the area but most of them were all sad and done. I got lucky and found one field still in bloom. Some of the flower heads were the largest I had ever seen, like dinner plates. I was capturing this near sunset but it was rather cloudy at the time as well.
We have been getting rain somewhat regularly this summer. I have been riding my bike later in the day as well so I was able to capture this storm moving in around sunset recently.
A bit different image today. This is a view of the field in Minnesota with the Sandhill Cranes. Even this doesn't really do it justice as this is only about 1/3 to 1/4th of the flock that was there. It was so cool to be able to see and photograph them.
We have been incredibly hot this past week, at or near 100 F and humid too. UGH Remembering back a couple of weekends to my trip to Colorado in the lovely cooler dry air. I was treated to a lovely sunset on the second evening as well.
I was out on an evening bike ride this past week and was treated to a lovely sky. This is a view to the west over a large field for cattle.
In early June we were having pretty significant storms about once a week. This is the sky between a couple where we had about 5 inches of rain total. It was a crazy evening but made for a beautiful sky.
The Black-eyed Susans have had, what I would call, a super bloom this year. There are quite a bit of them everywhere brightening up the landscape. I took this panorama out by the Milford Lake spillway about a week ago or so.
I was in Minnesota last weekend for the first of my usual trips. I was out walking during the early evening and came upon this scene. There has been a recent addition to the Steam Thresher's grounds of this old granary (building to store and process grain). I thought it looked rather picturesque across the field.
As I have been mentioning, we have had quite a lot of rain lately. We went 3 months with basically nothing and now, we are getting it all. When we went to play trains a few weekends ago, we were running in between storms. These are some retreating clouds that I really liked how the setting sun was illuminating. The cloud just to the right of the windmill was especially cool with it's light outline.
We had quite the storm roll through our area on Monday into Tuesday. It had very high winds and lots of rain with it, we received right at 3 inches. It caused a lot of tree damage in town, we lucked out with only one major limb down from a Sycamore tree. Fortunately the old Oak didn't receive any more major damage than it had gotten in the last storm. This is what the sky looked like to the east in the aftermath, still some Mammatus clouds.
It's a double digit day! 😀 Today's image is an older one I had taken of a nice sunset with my drone. It is overlooking our huge high school complex.
I was out by Milford Lake the other day and was a passenger in the car so I was able to take this image as we were crossing the dam. We have actually been having a good amount of rain lately. The clouds over the lake and the sun in the one area was interesting to me and, hopefully, to you as well. 😂
It's not Wednesday but wanted to share this image. 😉😊 I have an area in the backyard where i have some Ox-eye Daisies that have kind of taken over. I enjoy it in the Spring as it is like a small field of them and quite lovely. I have tried to transplant some but I never seem to have much success. They like this spot by my small pond and a raised garden bed. I made the beginning comment because Ox-eyes are technically a wildflower. The image is a bit different in size because it is a phone photo and I changed the format it takes photos in to a more cinematic style.
Thursday night we had a very small storm cell moving into the area. As usual, we did not get much rain out of it but it did produce a quite lovely sunset sky.
