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My trip
« Thread Started on Jun 17, 2010, 11:33am »

My sister and I drove to Kansas, Monday, to visit our sister there.

In Iowa there is water standing in the fields everywhere. In one low spot which had been replanted once, the replant was mostly under water. There is a byword among farmers that if you don't have some drowned out low spots in your fields, your crops aren't getting enough rain.

The Platte river of Missouri (not the Platte of Nebraska) was out of its banks and another river/creek in Missouri whose name I couldn't determine was out of its banks.

The muddy Missouri was quite high with a lot of trees and logs floating in it.

Along the way we say 5 deer, one fox, one kitty and lots of raccoons that had been hit by vehicles. If it weren't for automobiles, the world would be overrun with raccoons.

We saw some milkweeds in Missouri. Spraying has mostly eliminated them in Minnesota so we don't have any monarch butterflies anymore either. My sister in Kansas says they still have monarchs in the summer. We also saw lots of dragonflies--they have disappeared from around here, also. Dragonflies are the ones that used to hit windshields with a big splat--which happened often in Kansas and Missouri. That's a sound I hadn't heard in a long while.

My sister has a bird feeder and we saw cardinals, blue jays, an indigo bunting, finches, chickadees, woodpeckers, hummingbirds and many other birds. I heard a bob white. The down side of this is that about 4:30 in the morning, there is a continuous Hallelujah Chorus of birds singing. Quite a racket.

Coming back it did seem like the water standing in the fields in Iowa was down some in spite of the fact that it rained most of the time we were there. Perhaps it didn't rain in Iowa.

Trip was a lot of fun.

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