Place to see: The Flint Hills, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, United States
old fence
We took a random dirt road off the main highway, 77, which runs through the Hills, and came across bits and pieces of old farms and buildings.
About this place:
Some of the last remaining tall grass prairie in the nation. "Open sky, open land, unending horizon, the 'limitless and lonesome prairie,' to quote Whitman again. But the word that also springs to mind may be 'nothing'. A glorious nothing, but nothing nonetheless." (Verlyn Klinkenborg - National Geographic - April 2007)
During the summer it is a hot and dry place full of wildlife beneath the tall dense grasses and wildflowers. During the fall fires spread across the land burning the dead grasses making way for new spring growth. A wonderful peaceful place.
Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, US
Discovered by Jessica Burkart
on 19 January 2008.
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