WE LOVE AMERICA - KANSAS

After spending the night in Salina we drove south to a little town called Lindsborg. This town was settled by Swedish immigrants, and we discovered a Swedish restaurant, where we had a tasty lunch of ethnic food. We browsed through a gift shop with Swedish crafts, clothes and such and enjoyed visiting with the lady working there who knew everything about the town, and its Swedish roots. One charming aspect of the town were these little horses called Dala horses, all decorated differently by the various owners of the establishments in the town. Lindsborg was a real find for us and a hidden jewel.



We then headed east on very rural roads where we were able to examine, up close, fields of soybeans, sorghum and cotton. Driving along we weren't sure what the plants were so we stopped to investigate. We had never seen a cotton plant before, so this was interesting.



Notice here the cotton boll, which explodes open to reveal the cotton inside.



Here is the "cotton pickin' tour driver". We picked some cotton and a cotton boll to take home.

The soybean fields were yellow, ready to harvest. The farms were neat and many of them had oil wells in their fields. Look closely below and you can see the oil pump with the red head and counter weights sitting in the harvested field.



Kansas is flat and a farmer's paradise. We loved the farms and neat fields and thought of Grandpa Wray. Farming is still an honorable and needed profession and our country is blessed with an abundance, truly a land of milk and honey.