Konza Prairie Girl Color Pallette

Konza Prairie Girl Color Pallette

Friday, November 23, 2018

Monday, November 19, 2018

The Seasons... Keep on Changing

Moon as Pearl mtodd









red-headed woodpecker


Moon as Pearl



Konza Prairie Moon


mary todd


Mary Todd






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Mouse Haven in Mouse Haven in Winterthe Snow

Mouse Haven in Flint Hills Winter mary todd

Mouse story click to view large

Orange Marmalade Cat on the Prairie

A Marmalade Cat in the Flint Hills mtodd






Red Hot Chili Pepper of the Thunderpaws Tribe



Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Thursday, November 8, 2018

November Beauties

Konza Prairie Dog in the Fall mary todd

Kansas Corn Hawaiian Style mary todd

Modern Farming mary todd fine art in the flint hills

Fine art in the flint hills mary todd

Fine art in the flint hills mary todd

Monday, October 29, 2018

Autumn Beauty

Fine Art in the Flint Hills Sweetest Donkey, sheep farm mary todd


Flint Hills of Kansas mtodd

Flint Hills Country Road mtodd

Monday, April 16, 2018

The Big Blue River Meets the Kansas


The Big Blue River and the Kansas River intersect here in the northern edge of the Flint Hills.

The blues of the water are clear and bold but can become steely in winter. The clouds seem whiter than white as they build and billow above the gently moving water.  The riverbanks are lush with life; even in deep winter there are bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, migrating geese and pelicans (Pelicans!) and more.

Kansas River Clouds mary todd
Konza Prairie Girl Flint Hills Fine Ar







Sunburst at the Kansas River mary todd
Konza Prairie Girl Flint Hills Fine Art 

"The Big Blue River is the largest tributary of the Kansas River. The river flows for approximately 359 miles (578 km)[2] from central Nebraska into Kansas, until its confluence with the Kansas River at Manhattan.
It was given its name by the Kansa tribe of Native Americans, who lived at its mouth from 1780 to 1830, and who called it the Great Blue Earth River."
from Wiki








Also from Wiki:
"Shortly before intersecting with the Kansas River, the Big Blue discharges its waters into a reservoir called Tuttle Creek Lake, which lies slightly northeast of Manhattan. The reservoir is a man-made flood-control measure, held back by a dam composed of the limestone, silt, and gypsum dredged out of the floodplain by bulldozers left to rust underneath the flooded area. The land surrounding the reservoir is a state park area, although the Great Flood of 1993 decimated much of the northern area.

The river continues as the outflow from Tuttle Creek Lake for approximately five miles before intersecting with the Kansas River east of Manhattan."



This view of the Kansas River is just east of Manhattan.

The Painted River mary todd
Konza Prairie Girl Flint Hills Fine Art 


(Here is a story of a large turtle, rescued from a highway running through Manhattan and left on the banks of the river just here:)




Listen to some River Sailing Music....





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time to go lay down in a field...




Konza Prairie Girl Flint Hills Fine Art 
Kansas River Cloud Collage (small) mary todd

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All photos paintings pictures and art: copyright protected.

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Morning Butterflies

Early rising to film emergence can yield lovely surprises...


Butterfly in the Flint Hills mary todd
Zebra Swallowtail in the Flint Hills mary todd 


Butterfly emergence:
click here  The-butterfly-life-on-prairie--Chrysalis

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Spring vultures




Vultures in the Flint Hills mary todd
This job--
to keep things clean and pretty.
Eliminate death and decay.
Eating corruption.
The face
of a vulture is red and seems sad.
I see them near my home, working hard.
What grace must Fill them!
Doing the work that never ends.
 Doing the work no one speaks of
like my beautiful grandmothers.
Like your beautiful grandmothers.
No pretty Golden Beaks, no Snowy White headfeathers.
No eating food Alive.
The sad eyes are not really the eyes.
The humble face on the regal body
humbles me.

Vulture in Light Flint Hills mary todd



Lovely Flint Hills Vulture mtodd





quit complaining oh you thought i'd be pretty if i had head feathers and a yellow beak and ate my food ALIVE? (that's actually kind of cruel, eh?doing the work i was created for. taking care of this task is humbling.



vultures by mary todd




by mary todd



Vulture in the flint hills mtodd



Monday, January 15, 2018

Farms on the Konza: Beautiful Sunrise, Cows Mooing, and Clouds Screaming Color!


Even though my fingers were FREEZING
I left the pile of warm cozy, ran outside and took some videos (posted below) of a typical fabulous Flint Hills Sunrise. I love the Konza Prairie! I love the Great Plains! (is Great Plain an oxymoron?)

Most Photos are untouched but shrunk.

Flint Hills Farm mary todd

Morning Farm in the Flint Hills mary todd

Fine Art in the Flint Hills mary todd

Winter Prairie Farm mary todd

Winter Flint Hills Moon mary todd
 The morning moon seemed wrapped in a grainy fog.

Sunflower Winter Remains mary todd
 Dead Sunflowers Reach for Strange Clouds

Winter Skies on the Prairie mtodd
 Sailfish in the Sky.
Prairie Farm in Winter mary Todd
 Click on pic to view large.
Fine Art in the Flint Hills Treeline on the Farm Mary Todd
 The view north.

I will insert the videos after a couple of whimsy moments:

Plastic Wrapped Winter Sky mary todd

Mary Todd Treeline





and in the daytime:





very Large File: Bare Trees in Morning Moon Light

Bare Trees in Morning Moonlight mary todd