Looking out my back door

[likeAstone76]

Here are some pics of Lake Wilson here in Kansas

Some of the locals of the lake

 

[xvart]

And who says Kansas is boring and dull! Pssssh!

xvart.

 

[bpullin]

Very nice and diverse. Is the lake man-made? Is it the head of any rivers?

 

[likeAstone76]

It was built by the US Army corps of engineers after WW2. It has a numerous creeks running off of it, but no rivers flow into or out of it.

 

[cool85k5]

Nice pictures!



Jerry

 

[tommyr]

Sweet! Fantastic views!

 

[phissionkorps]

what business does Kansas have having scorpions and cacti? Thats for us :/

 

[jimscott]

Gee... and I thought it was going to be a topic about CCR! This doesn't look like Kansas! Where are the sunflowers? And what's that Geico salesman doing in there?

 

[quogue]

Haha.. I thought this might have something to do with CCR as well..

Cool pics, the artificial lake is beautiful but I'm all about that Collared Lizard!

 

[Ridetsu]

bah, i am jealous...

 

[Finch]

Very nice.

We have lizards in SD but i have never seen one. We do have cacti though aslo, as i found out one day on a lakeshore....

very very inconspicuous cacti... with huge thorns that rend your feet apart....

 

[EdaxFlamma]

Very nice!

Wouldn't happen to have any tumbleweed seed would you? haha *is half serious*

-J.P.

 

[likeAstone76]

I'm not sure how to extract the seed from the tumble weed, but I will keep my eye open. They usually start tumbling in the early fall.

I had no idea that those kinds of lizards were native to my homeland and found numerous of the little guys. I was on the lookout for rattle snakes that day, but they were elusive once again.

Scorpions, cactus, lizards, rattle snakes, not the Dorothy & Toto Kansas you always here about huh?

 

[EdaxFlamma]

Ya no kidding... it seems like there is much more color there than when they filmed the Wizard of OZ

My neighbor came from a part of California and said the tumbleweeds were bad there that they would blow into peoples cars, smack against houses etc. Heck I think that they would be neat little things (especially if you could make them smaller) then again I don't live with them 24/7 haha.

very nice view though

-J.P.

p.s. and please tell me that your avatar isn't a picture from your window either with all those nuke testing areas haha

 

[PlantAKiss]

Kansas has SCORPIONS?? I thought I was looking at pics from the west. Don't mind me though. I'm geographically challenged.

Love the photos. Its beautiful. Though confusing... lol

BTW...I'm a Scorpio so that's my cousin in the pic. hehe

 

[Finch]

I dont have tumbleweed seeds, but they are considered noxious and can be up to 5 feet wide and blow up in great numbers against everything. Seedlings abound, so next year if you remind me I could rip one from the garden and hook you up.

 

[EdaxFlamma]

Haha that would be great. Although I wonder if it is one of those invasive plants that cannot be sent or distributed etc... research must be done...

Thanks,
-J.P.

EDIT: Quick search tells me that I'm better off not introducing them here.. *sigh* oh well I will have to admire them from afar. Thanks anyway!

 

[Clint]

Pretty. I've never been to a place where you can see that far.

And Scorpio's do rock lol.

 

[pedersonplants]

Then you've never been to Wyoming either. 26 years ago I could drive 100 miles and not see another car!

 

[likeAstone76]

Some recent pics of a fishing trip in my neck of the woods.


A redneck hot tub. It only works in the summer.

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