Farmlands all around us

Even though we live inside the city limits of Scott City, just one half block puts us walking among the cornfields and maize.

The maize ripens to a beautiful reddish brown color and there are miles and miles of fields of it.

The corn fields line the other side of the road as we take our walk a mile down the road to the cemetery.  Notice the track alongside  the corn field.

These pivots are the  way they water these huge fields and the reason the fields are round.  They are a series of connected sections which starts at a pump and the sprinklers spray the crops as the whole pivot turns slowly in a circle with the wheels going on the track. 

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Above is an example of the track the pivot moves on through the corn field.

And then in the middle of a field you see an oil pump pulling black gold out of the farmland. I was very surprised to see these  all over western Kansas.

Because the wind never stops blowing in Kansas, they have these Wind Farms to harness that power and turn it in to electricity.  Some fields we pass have hundreds of these giant windmills always turning.  What a great natural resource!

These are my favorite fields.  We passed sunflower fields on both sides of the road as we drove north to Colby every week.  

The  sunflower is the state flower of Kansas and the wild ones line the roadsides and highways.  There are sunflowers  on the welcome sign, on hotel signs, banners on the light poles in town, painted on sides of buildings, on t-shirts and sweatshirts (gotta get one of those), everywhere!

And I LOVE SUNFLOWERS  so all these sunflowers make me happy! ! !