This page includes scenes from Colby, Kansas, including ones from the Prairie Museum of Art and History. The subsequent four pages are images from Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure Zoo and Museum.

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Kansas is the Sunflower State. I found some wild ones growing in Colby, Kansas.

August 18, 2013

An open field beside a Walmart store
[A sea of yellow petals with dark dots in their center atop 3 foot green stems.]

Close view of the flowers
[Two sunflowers each approximately 3 inches across.]

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Prairie Museum of Art and History - Colby Kansas
Prairie Living Site
June 30, 2012

Cooper Barn is the largest barn in Kansas. Barn is 66 feet wide by 114 feet long by 48 feet high and was built in 1936.
[White barn with sloping grey composite roof and plenty of windows along the side walls.]

Loft of the Cooper Barn
[Wooden beams and framing of the inside of the HUGE loft.]

Carriage inside the barn
[Open, 2-seater carriage with rooftop and backing meant to be pulled by one horse.]

Lone Star Church built in 1915.
[White clapboard, two-story church with three story bell tower amidst some trees on the prairie.]

Lone Star Church interior
[Three columns of five dark brown pews leading up to a slightly raised pulpit with a cross hanging behind it and a curved window above the cross.]

Sod home replica (Cacti are growing on the roof above the door.)
[Dwelling with a wood-framed wooden door and a wood-framed window with the rest made out of sod blocks. Cactus is growing on the roof above the door.]

Interior of the sod home
[One room dwelling with a bed in one corner, a rocking chair and a cradle by the window and an ironing board in the foreground.]

Wooden blade windmill
[White, wooden windmill tower atop which sits a spoked wheel with wooden blades attached side-by-side perpendicular to the outer frame of the spoked wheel.]

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Prairie Museum of Art and History - Colby Kansas
Kuska Galleries Museum
June 30, 2012

Museum building with its earth walls
[Earth is built up on the sides so no walls are seen. An opening (the door) is visible in the grass as is a small section of triangular roof.]

Glassware on display
[Many pieces of red patterned crystal on a lit, glass shelf.]

Louis XV French mahogany writing desk with rosewood inlay (circa 1780's)
[Flip-top desk with top down showing in the inlay on the writing surface and the multiple, small drawers inside the desk.]

Bernard Ravca dolls
[Soft-sculpture male and female peasant dolls in the middle with one military dressed doll on the right and one well-dressed woman doll on the left.]

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