A large elm tree on the river road northwest of Lawrence
The Kansas River looking east from the Lecompton Bridge
Prairie grasses near Tonganoxie
Breidenthal Woods
Banks house near the Kansas River east of Leco
Overbearing apple tree in the Kansas River bottomland east of Lecompton
Bottomland farmyard west of Eudora
Tangled fencing at Banks pasture
Wooly mullein near Linwood
A coal train in a snowstorm north of Desoto
Lightning struck branch enclosed by tree growth at Gridley's Hill.
Dense riparian brush west of Lakeview on the south bluff along the Kansas River
Wild asparagus near Sibleyville
Osage orange south of Tonganoxie
Mrs. Schellhorn's garden in north Lawrence
Weeds at pasture's edge near Linwood
A small farm south of White Cloud
A kitchen garden west of Baldwin City
Overlooking the bottomlands south of Lansing
Aftermath of the spring burn west of Cassoday
Chert revealed by a spring burn south of Emporia
Flooded trees at Clinton Reservoir
A bog in Burcham Park
Driftwood at Tuttle Creek Reservoir
Campers along the Wakarusa east of Topeka
White Cloud
A farmstead at night west of Desoto
An abandoned farm near Stull
Wooly Mullein and cattle at sunset along the Palmyra Ridge
Scrap wire near Perry
Rusting barrel at Banks Pasture
Marsh grass at the edge of a pasture southwest of Lawrence
Penskey's Orchard
Osage orange near Blue Mound
Limestone outcrop on the south bluff over the Blue River near Stilwell
Arrow Rock
Lightning struck branch at Gridley's Hill
Rock Creek - early morning
Rock Creek west of Clinton Reservoir
Spring run off at Hole-in-the-Rock
Chinese elm tree east of Teeterville
A big cottonwood tree at Banks Pasture
Prairie grasses at Konza
After having resided in Paris for about a year and a half in 1985-86, I returned to Kansas.
My home state looked otherworldly to me.
I explored and photographed northeast, eastern and central Kansas with an exuberant joy I had never felt before.