Random Collection of Pictures January 2025

I often capture pictures on my phone that I'm interested in or have a memory attached to them. But they stay on my phone. Eating up cloud storage and lost in the myriad of pictures. I finally realized - duh, I have a blog I can upload a few pictures to and use the captions to explain the significance. So I hope to continue this series of Random Collection of Pictures for the months where there are enough to upload.

Fort Hays during the winter. The last time I went inside the  buildings was with David during 2015 visit.

I served as the webmaster for the Geoscience Information Society in 2024.

I find this map snippet interesting - Mt Sunflower highest point in Kansas, Black Mesa highest point in Oklahoma (both over 4,000 feet) and then scrolling westward towards Raton Pass 3000 ft higher than Black Mesa.

One of those weird things: a State Highway in Kansas turns into a dirt road at the Colorado border and Colorado posted a road closed sign when wet.

The short Kansas State Highway 191 that connects US 281 to the center of the 48 states. I know that county very well.

Pretty cool chart of types of wetlands -- what's a fen or what's a swamp

I came across this picture of me when I was searching staff pictures for the Dean's retirement party. Probably 2010.

I caught this picture of brewing storm.

A very interesting picture from a restaurant table mat. You can see how the Tennessee River carved its way through what is now Signal and Elder mountains. And the depth between the Plateau and Dunlap. You can see Chattanooga listed at the 5:00 position. 

Look at that geology map: the eastern part of the state with several changes of color hues. I mean there are part of the Ozarks, part of the Osage Cuestas, the Flint Hills, and the very abnormal Chautauqua Hills dominated by thick cedars and sandstone. And then about 1/3 of the way heading west - the colors become more similar east to west than the eastern part of north to south. The Kansas River (the Kaw) is the only river in the Great Plains that does not have a starting stream in the Rockies, instead the starting stream is in the eastern plains of Colorado. Also for more interesting stuff -- there's an old rift hidden under the Eastern part of Kansas that is connected to the rift that created the Great Lakes.