August Storm - *WARNING* Pic Heavy

Friday night I was at a Pampered Chef party and when I stepped outside about 8:00 pm the sky was gorgeous with a coming summer storm. I rushed home grabbed my camera and the truck, because I can climb up on the cab of the truck and get a much better view, I rushed off on the dirt roads. 

Warning!! This post has about 21 pictures. They've been edited only slightly and are true to color. This really was how bright the colors were that night! 

I rather think the tail light one is my favorite. 

Or maybe these sunflowers are my favorite! 

I've never been out in a sky before like this one. It was magnificent and I stayed out in it until I was soaked. This, the sky so vast and powerful, is what I love about Kansas. 

DR's Kansas Crop Tour

As part of my DR's job he usually takes a crop tour a few times each growing season. A week ago or so he borrowed my camera (under severe warning that if anything happened to it he would be sleeping on the couch) to take on his crop tour. I was transferring photos onto my computer and had a good look at some of the photos he took. I thought some of you may be interested in what SW Kansas crops are looking like. 

Irrigated and dry land corn

Milo

Drilling a well

Pasture

Hmmm....a pig car...well that's interesting to see on my camera.

Ooh. That's not good. 

Well, at least the clouds are filled out. 

And the most disturbing photo I found on my camera. 

Oooo...a grain bin with a hole in it, a weak spot that ruptured unexpectedly. Can you imagine how much grain must have come pouring out? Believe it or not, this is the second bin I've heard that's blown out. 

Bad years of drought. Hopefully next year will be better. 

Flood Irrigation in Kansas

While most fields are watered through circle pivots, but a friend told me when she was little she'd haul pipes to one end of the field at it would flood the field with water. Flood irrigation.

I didn't think anyone did it this way anymore because it was such an inefficient use of water but I found a field just last week utilizing the old irrigation method.

I didn't get up close and personal, it was cold and I had three hungry kids in the car, but I assume it is a field of wheat.

You don't see many fields with pipes anymore but you do see the pipes in a lot of places. I've seen a 7 foot pen for chickens built out of irrigation pipes or just piled up randomly in a pasture.