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"They Called Them the Streaks": After several years of inactivity, I found a forgotten roll of film in the camera. This strange picture came from that roll. Exposure had to be more than 20 seconds. Stars begin to streak when exposure times pass 20 seconds. The long horizontal streak of light is from a passing car.

"Mt. Sunflower with a Storm Front Approaching": I needed a picture of Mt. Sunflower for the Northwest Kansas Travel Council's Ultimate Guide to Northwest Kansas. (Mt. Sunflower is Kansas' highest point.) When I arrived, I saw a storm front brewing. The highest point around is not a good place in a thunderstorm, plus it is well away from any paved roads. I hurried to reach pavement before the roads turned to mud.

"Ruleton Rainbow": When I neared Interstate 70 at Kanorado, Kan., I noticed a rainbow forming to the east. I immediately envisioned a picture of a rainbow and a grain elevator. I stopped at Kanorado, but I couldn't get the shot I wanted. I was worried the rainbow would disappear before I could get another chance at a picture. To my great relief, I arrived Ruleton, Kan., in time to get this shot. Rainbows aren't all that common in semiarid Northwest Kansas. This picture appeared in Kansas Traveler magazine's winter 2007-2008 issue.

"Lost Keys Barn": I have admired this unusual barn west of Wood River, Neb., all my life. When I finally took a picture of it, I nearly lost my keys while walking between corn fields to reach the barn. The grass was calf high and I feared I'd never see my keys again. I called my cousins George and Dody Allan for help. George brought a large magnet to sweep through the grass. He tried sweeping and found nothing. He handed the magnet to me. Through the grace of God, I saw a glint of sunshine on metal, one of my key tags. What a relief!

"Red Sky at Night/Sailor's Delight": I could not resist this beautiful sunset in southern Logan County, Kan. I would have loved to have walked into the field behind the power line, but the knee-high grass in the ditch was good rattlesnake cover. I'd just heard the day before of someone being bitten, so felt extra cautious.

"Southern Lights": I won a trip in an L.W. Barrett Co., Inc., sales contest. At trip's end, we stayed a night at Keystone, Colo. Keystone Lake was a perfect mirror that night. This is a reflection of the Argentina group of condominiums, where we stayed.

"Light Show": Keystone Lodge reflected in Keystone Lake.

"'Life' Redux": The lines and forms here reminded me of pictures in Life magazine in the 1930s.

"Art Deco for Sure": The similarity to a 1930s picture is even more marked in black and white.

"No Substitute for Green Beans": These prickly pear cacti are on Beecher Island Battleground, Yuma County, Colo. Some years before, our grocery store carried these in the produce section. They were advertised as tasting like green beans. We tried them. They were essentially tasteless, just boot-tough and stringy. We haven't eaten them since. Nor do we intend to.

"Thomas Kinkaid Creek": I don't know the name of this creek that runs through Crosswinds Convention Center, Hesston, Kan., but it is beautiful. The light early in the morning was outstanding. Eric thinks this picture looks like something Thomas Kinkaid would paint.

"Flexibility Test": I crawled into the windmill's structure and leaned backwards as far as I could to get this picture. Windmill stands on the grounds of Crosswinds Convention Center, Hesston, Kan.

"Aeromotor windmill": This windmill stands on an abandoned farmstead near the Three Corners where Kansas meets Colorado and Nebraska. The windmill still works, but little else on this farmstead appears intact. As the High Plains depopulate, abandoned farmsteads bear witness to the population that was.

"Webster County sunset": We stopped to change drivers just north of the Kansas-Nebraska line on Highway 281. I saw the setting sun peeking through this tree across the road. I love the halo effect around the tree.

"Frosted 'Maxi' Wheats": Snow-covered hay bales near Clayton, Kan.

"In a World of White": Two Buttes in Prowers County, Colo., covered with four feet of snow, January 2007. So much snow fell that a store's roof in Springfield, Colo., collapsed under its weight. Two Buttes stands 356 feet above ground level. Altitude is 4,711 feet above sea level. I would have liked to have gotten closer to the rock formation, but did not dare to try. I might not have gotten back out.

"Happy Together": We saw these red-eared sliders toward the end of our Slidell, La., swamp tour on New Year's Eve 2007. I just aimed my camera in that direction hoping for a good picture. I couldn't really see what I was getting. Imagine my delight when I saw this!

"Warped Reflection": Two boat wakes and very clear water contributed to this reflection of a cypress tree in the West Pearl River in Louisiana.

"Ansel Adams' Disciple": I switched the color mode to grayscale and found that I liked the results!

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