#Flint Hills

[micr0s0ftmax]

from the flint hills in kansas on color negative film

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Greetings from Konza Prairie in the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas! This is one of the largest remnant tallgrass prairies in North America.

[finnelfin]

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Tyrion II

West of the road were flint hills, grey and rugged, with tall watchtowers on their stony summits.

To the east the land was lower, the ground flattening to a rolling plain that stretched away as far as the eye could see.

Stone bridges spanned swift, narrow rivers, while small farms spread in rings around holdfasts walled in wood and stone. The road was well trafficked, and at night for their comfort there were rude inns to be found.

Three days’ ride from Winterfell, however, the farmland gave way to dense wood, and the kingsroad grew lonely.

The flint hills rose higher and wilder with each passing mile, until by the fifth days they had turned into mountains, cold blue-grey giants with jagged promontories and snow on their shoulders.

When the wind blew from the north, long plumes of icy crystals flew from the high peaks like banners.

[trailerparktombombadil]

June 1

My farmer's market has some vendors selling some awesome plants - for so late in the season I was thrilled!

This is Ironweed vernonia native to the Flint Hills. Super excited to see a vendor getting into the native plants.

My garden has yarrow, echinacea, and now Ironweed. It will produce bright purple spiky flowers in July. I will win the native plant game somehow.

I also nabbed some nasturtiums and a VERY pretty dwarf crepe myrtle (mocha red).

Better yet, this was the vendor's shop. It was soooo cute inside.

Got some decorative peppers to try and maintain some color in my yard as we get into August. I need to find some mums somewhere.

[topgunreacts]

👀 how soon we talking (i have a series of long flights and would much love to download some Top Tier Quality Content)

Currently finishing up a week out of state to help sort through more of my grandma’s things, so I’ve had no time to even glance at the notes. I’m aiming (optimistically) to have chapter one posted on Monday. That gives me a nice buffer day (Sunday) after a ten-hour road-trip-back-home day (Saturday—lol midwest USA*) to look things over. Also, Mondays are statistically good days to post fic and I’m an attention whore. I’m not dropping the whole thing at once; I’ll most likely end up posting twice a week. It’s 22 chapters long, so that would mean an 11-week-or-less posting range.

*general FYI for those not in the know: this is still faster and cheaper than flying for us—lots of Midwest airports are strictly regional, so to get from, say, Dubuque Iowa to Andover Kansas you’ll end up flying from Dubuque to Dallas Ft Worth, and then to Wichita after a layover, and then you’ll drive an additional 45 minutes from the airport because they don’t believe in trains anymore out here. Statistically, of course, driving is much less physically safe. But you can’t see THIS shit from 37,000 feet, now can you?

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[lazymcfail]

flint hills, KS

[clementinecompendium]

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[tammyoshanter]

I live in the Flint Hills by the Konza Prairie and Biological Station in Kansas and please do not underestimate my excitement about it. I tell you the landscape is breathtaking and just so precious. It is a place everyone should see. Please help us keep it around.

I hope everyone understands, when I say “most endangered habitat on earth”, I mean temperate grasslands.

They’re more endangered than tropical rainforests, coral reefs, the arctic tundra, all of those go-to environments that get more of the spotlight.

Where I live, maybe 25% of the prairie remains in a natural state and that number is dropping. Even these fragments are mostly missing the keystone species that maintain their health, like bison, wolves, and prairie dogs. I know this is the case for other grasslands like the pampas and steppe as well. Vast lands empty of many species that used to call them home.

If you live on temperate grasslands, hold onto them tight, because they’ve been exploited like no other land and most people don’t even know how far the devastation goes.

[adventurechristianity]

Bagger 293

“For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”Matthew 17:20b You know what would look great out in the Flint Hills of Kansas? Pikes Peak. I love the gently rolling hills and waving wheat, but a beautiful snow-capped mountain peak would be stunning, right…

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[rebeccathenaturalist]

Hello from Manhattan--Kansas, that is! I'm on my way to Missouri again to do some teaching, exploring, and visiting my family. I spent all week driving and was set to arrive last night. But I woke up yesterday morning with a mild cold (oh no!) and so I extended my stay at the hotel a couple of nights to let it run its course since this is NOT the sort of gift I want to give my family. Thankfully, it's my absolute favorite hotel on the entire route, the Best Western in Manhattan, so if I was going to be grounded anywhere for a couple of days en route this would be it.

On the bright side, I did manage to have a good (outdoor) meeting with the educational director at the Flint Hills Discovery Center, which I recommend visiting if you're ever in the area and want to learn about the native tallgrass prairies of this region. We're putting together some plans for me to do some teaching during my seasonal peregrinations, and a book signing next year when The Everyday Naturalist is out. I'm very excited about this collaboration, because this is a first-rate educational facility and I love everything they're doing there.

Unless this virus decides to take a turn for the worse tonight--which it shouldn't--I'll be on my way tomorrow morning, with a detour over to Konza Prairie for a nice ramble. I've been stuck in the car and indoors way too much this week, and while I got to do a too-short but pleasant jaunt along the Chief Standing Bear Trail Thursday afternoon on my way to Manhattan, I've really been looking forward to my prairie time.

[finnelfin]

[randomenglishmajor]

[martincooneyart]

Coming Soon: The Walled Garden of Alta Vista KS