Paradise found but where's Waldo?

 On the last stretch home, we turned south on 183 at Ansley, Nebraska.

This barbed wire buffalo contains 2 miles of barbed wire and weighs about a ton.  It was made out of wire from fences erected around the area between 1886 and 1970.

Here is a corn cob made from barbed wire.  Did you know there is a barbed wire museum in La Crosse, Kansas?  We stopped there once.  It is kind of interesting!

Beauty of the plains

As we passed the Nebraska Prairie Museum at Holdredge, we noticed a wedding going on!  Well, probably had just finished and they were taking pictures.

At Plainville we turned east on Highway 18.

Farmland

We were surprised that the wheat harvest was not all completed just yet.

Look at this idea for a Kansas sunflower snack!

The sunflower is our state flower.

We found Paradise!

Where's Waldo?

Wilson Lake

See the rock posts?  This is post rock country.

Many fences made with it.

Kansas is NOT all flat!

It is just beautiful!

An elephant cloud!

While we had been gone, a couple from out of state had been staying at our home.  They were in the process of adopting a baby from Kansas and as they needed to be here for almost 2 weeks to complete paperwork, friends of theirs had asked if we would be open to having them stay in our home.  OF COURSE!  We use our home often for people to stay and we were especially delighted to meet the new little one!

A gorgeous Kansas sunrise greeted us the next morning.