Tallgrass Prairie Schoolhouse by auntietk
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Description
In the Flint Hills in Central Kansas, you'll find some of the only remaining tallgrass prairie. This is land that's never been plowed or farmed.
Where I was standing the grass was about five feet high.
The schoolhouse in this image is made from local stone, as are many of the buildings in that area.
You can learn about the tallgrass prairie HERE ... Do check it out!
Yesterday we had a lovely, relaxed day, taking pictures and playing. It was a wonderful break after all the work we did over the past couple weeks! I think we only drove about 250 miles. Today we'll be driving most of the day. Time to get seriously moving along!
Comments (36)
Faemike55
Great capture and wonderful information
MrsLubner
When I traveled through Kansas, I found places like this and there is a historic feeling in them. The vast prairies and golden grasses... you really captured this perfectly.
cfulton
Thanks for the link - very interesting. Love the POV of the schoolhouse! Clive
marybelgium
beautiful and intersting !
helanker
This is such a great shot and I was in the website reading about the prairie. It is so very interesting. It makes me think back to my childhood, when my father gave me the first book about Laura Ingalls Wilder. And every year after that I he gave me the next book. I just loved the books and kept them untill a year ago, when I gave the full book series to my grand daughter Noa. She likes reading and was Happy for the gift. And that is all I know about the prairie :-D Thanks for the memory trip :-D
RodS Online Now!
Beautiful capture, Tara! I keep expecting Laura Ingalls to step out of that schoolhouse. The Flint Hills area is some of the loveliest scenery in Kansas. There is an area near Council Grove called the Konza Prairie. You can easily spend a couple days there, wandering the trails and exploring the small towns in the area. Safe journey to you and Bill!
beachzz
What a wonderful shot--hard to believe that building is still standing. The prairies are a part of this country I've never seen. Sounds like you're making the most of your trip home. Good for you!!
barbdennist
Oh what a fantastic picture. My mom was born in Kansas and I can just imagine her attending a school just like this. I just finished reading the entire Little House On The Prairie series last year so it brought back thoughts of those scenes too. Thanks for the memories. I hope you avoid snow on your travels home.
durleybeachbum
"The climate is considered moderate" WHAT! 80-100, and 10-20! Moderate my sit-upon! Marvellous pic, so good that this tiny remnant is saved.
MrsRatbag
Stunning scene and you captured it perfectly!
prutzworks
love this shot
emmecielle
great capture! :)
rocserum
Great suggestive POV, wonderful photo! RS
awjay
nice voyeristic shot
-seek-
cool mood this pulls off.. great shootin!
myrrhluz
The Texas Hill Country used to be covered in tall grass. "The first explorers to the central Texas hill country wrote in letters that the grass came up to their horses' shoulders, and when the wind blew it looked like ocean swells rolling across the countryside. But a century of overgrazing by cattle and goats reduced much of the land to a cedar-filled brush with much of the topsoil gone with the wind — good for looking at, but not much else" (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123068681) That's an interesting article about a man, David Bamberger, who is working to restore some of the Hill Country. Great shot! Excellent POV with the tall grass reaching higher than the little school house. Beautiful detail, and color!
DananJaya_Chef
Wonderful image.
jmb007
belle photo!
Cameocat
Beautiful image of a time long ago passed. Oh for the simplicity of life back then that we will never see again. :-)
Chipka
Yeah, I like this! I like tall grass prairies. They're so underrated and since I've been back in the USA I've gained a new appreciation for them; that and I'm amazed at how much like parts of Africa the Midwestern USA looks...flat and grassy. I like the elegance of this shot and the almost bug's eye view...grasses over five feet tall definitely give that sort of bug feeling...a Kafka high, as Joan Lee declared in the film version of Naked Lunch..."it makes you feel like a bug." I like that feeling and this shot delivers it wonderfully. Great Midwest American colors too. I like this.
Merrylee
Cool shot...nice POV
danapommet
Wonderful shot of this fine stonework. Drive safe. Dana
Meisiekind
Oh how wonderful! I just love your POV here! It gives the image a desolate feel!! 5 feet high??? - So a foot over your head... LMAO!!! Just joking... Lief jou! xx
bazza
Lovely shot Tara, nice building and that is long grass and I thought mine was long today so I mowed it, lol..
whaleman
Excellent shot Tara! I am surprised that a small school would be made of stone; it is very lovely!
Katraz
Climate moderate I stand with Andrae on that one, and I think my lawn aspires to be a tallgrass prairie in the summer. Great picture I love the POV.
faroutsider
When I first read your narrative, I thought you said "The schoolhouse in this image is made from local stone, as are many of the children in that area...." "That's not like Tara" I said, and read it again, more carefully. Lovely shot - could be a movie set.
jayfar
Very lovely shot and info.
flora-crassella
superb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
moochagoo
Looks like an Andrew Wyeth's painting !