manhattan kansas
grrlscientist | June 12, 2008tags: tornado, Manhattan Kansas, weather
"Hello? Dad? Can I borrow your car?"
Image: Dave Rintoul, 12 June 2008 [larger view].
[Includes slideshow]
After I returned from Manhattan, Kansas, I thought of it as a wonderful, magical place where I would always be able to return, to see birds and photograph lots of native wildlife, to find a warm and safe place with my good friends, Dave and Elizabeth. (I am sure all of you know Dave quite well, since his gorgeous photographs are often featured as the "Image of the Day" on this site.) But while I was preoccupied with my imaginings, I was…
grrlscientist | March 31, 2008tags: kitsch, tacky midwestern shit, ball of twine
The World's Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, Kansas.
Image: GrrlScientist, 2008. [larger size].
grrlscientist | March 29, 2008tags: American bison, Bos bison, mammals, animals, photography, image of the day
American bison bull.
Image: Dave Rintoul, KSU [wallpaper size].
grrlscientist | March 28, 2008tags: American bison, Bos bison, Konza Prairie, Manhattan, Kansas, nature, Image of the Day
Portrait of an adult female bison, Bos bison,
on the Konza Prairie, near Manhattan Kansas. March 2008.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [larger view].
grrlscientist | March 27, 2008
Portrait of a male Greater Prairie-Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido.
Image: Dave Rintoul, KSU. 2007.
This morning, I had the great privilege to watch male Greater Prairie-chickens, Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus, perform on a lek site located on the Konza Prairie in Kansas, along with Dave Rintoul's ornithology class. Not only was this the first time I'd seen lekking behavior for this species, but this was the first time I'd ever seen this species in the wild.
To do this, I crawled out of bed at 430am, so I had enough time to comb the tangles out of my hair (I learned that all hair conditioners…
grrlscientist | March 27, 2008tags: stone, Konza Prairie, Manhattan, Kansas, nature, Image of the Day
Stone surrounded by mostly native vegetation
with natural spring water flowing over it
on the Konza Prairie, near Manhattan Kansas. March 2008.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [larger view].
grrlscientist | March 26, 2008tags: photoessay, Konza Prairie, Manhattan, Kansas, nature
I know you all are wondering what happened to me since I have been so quiet today, and the truth is that I am doing all sorts of amazingly fun things as long as possible until my broken wing makes me exhausted from ignoring the pain. At the moment, I am sitting in my very own office (!!) next to Dave Rintoul's in the biology department at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. (It might interest you to know that this office is much larger than the first apartment I rented in the other Manhattan). I am uploading something close…
grrlscientist | March 26, 2008tags: tree, Konza Prairie, Manhattan, Kansas, nature, Image of the Day
Trunk from what is probably a Black Locust, Robinia pseudoacacia,
colonized by a community of crustose lichens [study]
on the Konza Prairie, near Manhattan Kansas. March 2008.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [larger view].