14th day -- Yucca

There is just not much greenery on the plains of Wallace county Kansas in November, so this small yucca caught my attention. The long, sharp spikes show a bright contrast against the faded prairie earth and stubble.

This morning I took a short walk with my two grandsons, ages 5 and 4, and was prepared to capture interesting sights with my camera. But this afternoon at my oldest granddaughter's birthday party, I left my camera at her house to make a run down the road to check out a "monstrous" deer with some of the avid hunters in the family. I don't mind the fact that I did not get a picture of the huge buck, but I am very disappointed that I missed out on one of the most interesting cloud formations I have ever seen in my life. At least a dozen small clumps of clouds trailed streaming wisps beneath them so that their shapes all resembled jellyfish floating through the sky. If I had seen a painting of them, I would have said that the scene was fake.

People who travel through Kansas generally remark about how dull the scenery is. But even on a very typical day such as today, I find that there is always something worthy to see, either on the ground or in the sky. The finding it is all.