It’s that time of year, to go mushroom hunting. There are numerous spots around Kansas that one can usually find some morels. Although if you are like me, there are never enough. I love morels!
Here are some mushrooms we have in Kansas, we even have a state park named after them!
A link to the park website: Mushroom State Park
St. Joseph Catholic Church – 1905 Leibenthal, KS
Kansas Field of Hard Red Winter Wheat
A beautiful Kansas sunset
Guest photographer, my dear Aunt❤️
Flint Hills north of Tuttle Creek Lake
Carnahan Creek School 1867
Stone Fence
St. Boniface Catholic Church – 1907 Vincent, KS
Pearl of the Prairies
Ebenezer Church – 1876 Clay County, KS
Falun Lutheran Church – 1887 Falun, KS
A while back I was up at a great Antique store visiting with the owner, talking about blogging and traveling around, she asked me if I knew about the website Find A Grave. She said I really should look into it. Here is a link to their site: Find A Grave
I signed up!! Anyone can go on the site and request a photo of a grave, then you are sent an email notice that there has been a request. If you want you can “claim” it and then you have a few days to go locate and photograph the grave. Yesterday Wylie and I went to locate 2 graves. These were burials from 1930’s so they were easier to locate than some older graves. The site’s mobile app is great. When you are out and about, it’s so easy to look up the nearby cemeteries to see if there are any requests for photos.
I just received my new Reba McIntyre album “Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope” I can’t wait to go out hunting again with her hymns guiding us along!
This was not one of the graves we located, but I couldn’t pass up this beautiful monument.
Unmeasured Journeys recently posted some beautiful Angels. You can view them here: Angels
February 2014
Beautiful amazing sunrise(s)
Wylie stuck in a snow drift. When his feet get cold, he sits and waits for me to come and pick him up.
Holy Family Catholic Church – 1899 Odin, KS
Holy Cross Church – 1918 Pfeifer, KS
Construction started on the Church in 1915 and it was dedicated on May 3, 1918. Known as the two-cent church, because families paid two cents for every bushel of wheat they produced to finance the construction. They also donated their time for labor, quarrying and delivering the stone.
Coming into town from the north, the church’s gothic tower soars above the wheat fields. The main tower is 165 feet tall, believed to be the tallest gothic spire in Kansas.
In 1993 the Catholic diocese dissolved the parish. The parishioners started the Holy Cross Charities, Inc a non-profit organization to preserve the majestic church. Donations can be mailed to:
Holy Cross Charities, Inc. PO Box 5 Pfeifer, KS 67660
Back view of the church and school.
Holy Cross Cemetery
This area of Kansas was settled by German speaking people from the Volga River area in southern Russia. Iron crosses are part of their heritage.
Farmer Days 