yeah...we're in the middle of nowhere.
yeah...we don't have oceans or mountains or starfish
yeah...we are full of rednecks.
yeah...we don't have any movie stars here.
BUT it is beautiful here.
June in Kansas is my favorite time of year.
on the radio in my car was "We're from the Country"
how fitting.
now...if i knew what anything about farming...that would be even cooler!
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don't forget to vote today...you rocked it yesterday!
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totally random...i just walked by sean's room... he is in there playing legos alone...singing Joy to the World...as loud as he can.
funny.
Wow, I never thought anyone could make me miss Kansas...but I LOVE that 3rd pic!
Posted by: Ambre | June 26, 2009 at 11:20 AM
y'know? i think kansas has some pretty sexy wheatfields. your pictures are lovely. eye candy! is that queen anne's lace? if it is, i'm in love. even if it's not. . . i'm still in love.
Posted by: purejoy | June 26, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Meg,
The 3rd picture is definitely beautiful :) Good eye, good eye. I see that stuff all the time living in Texas, but I don't like to be stereotyped as a 'redneck', just not my cup of tea. Yes, we have TONS of cowboys/girls here, but i'm not one! It's neat to see though, I think personally. The pictures are fab. *RUNNING TO VOTE*
Posted by: Jo | June 26, 2009 at 11:32 AM
BEAUTIFUL! The pictures of the wheat are just gorgeous!
Posted by: valerie | June 26, 2009 at 11:38 AM
holy moly! you are killin the competition! you rock, meg(an)!
Posted by: Heather @ Cookie Mondays | June 26, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Beautiful pictures! I want to take pictures like that!
Going to vote... as I have done everyday since you posted about the award!
Posted by: Dani | June 26, 2009 at 12:15 PM
holy cow your corn is so tall compared to ours in Michigan! I voted for you yesterday... I'll go vote again :)
Posted by: Trish | June 26, 2009 at 12:25 PM
The Midwest is a lovely place to live and since I'm only in week 7, I'm still discovering all of it. Happy to be here! Beautiful pictures, as always.
Posted by: Starnes Fam | June 26, 2009 at 12:34 PM
These are all so great - although I see these things around me, they just seem prettier when someone else points them out.
Posted by: Sharla | June 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM
I was just stuck in a traffic jam on the 101 Freeway in Hollywood while I was taking my son to a playdate. Came home, opened this and started to cry! Man, would I rather be walking through a cornfield!
Posted by: Gretchen | June 26, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Your photos are breathtaking. Love 'em.
Posted by: Melanie | June 26, 2009 at 01:12 PM
oh my, it is beautiful! thanks for sharing!!
Posted by: Dina | June 26, 2009 at 01:15 PM
makes me wish I was in Kansas, right now wearing no shoes and sporting overalls.
Posted by: pve | June 26, 2009 at 01:25 PM
LOVE the pictures and the song on the radio is one of my favs considering the fact that I actually am from the Country - Arkansas to be exact! HA! Have a great weekend, Meg! :o)
Posted by: Tracy | June 26, 2009 at 01:38 PM
Meg,
I am really inspired by your blog. Your photos are amazing and I can not wait every day to see what you have posted. I am a working mother of two boys (5yrs and 7 months). I have the same camera you do and love taking pictures of my family. I would love to know more about how you alter or enhance your photos. They are beautiful and vibrant. I would love to know more about your photos of families. I know you get a lot of this but you are an inspiration. God Bless.
Posted by: Meredith Salmon | June 26, 2009 at 01:43 PM
Absolutely beautiful. I actually drove from Oklahoma to Kansas City in the spring, and I marveled at how beautiful the fields were. It had been raining, so everything was grey and vivid green. Amazing...
Posted by: AnNicole@OurSuburbanCottage | June 26, 2009 at 01:45 PM
Meg - those cows look like they are posing for you!
Posted by: Nina | June 26, 2009 at 01:48 PM
I spent my summers with my grandparents in Eureka so these pics bring back incredible summer memories. Also now craving the tastiness that is corn picked from the field then served with freshly caught fish.
Posted by: Amy | June 26, 2009 at 02:08 PM
It looks so beautiful. I would move to the middle of nowhere anyday if I could!
Posted by: Ruth | June 26, 2009 at 02:09 PM
your lucky, i am in CA and can't wait to leave to a more simple life, i love the pics
Posted by: andrea liese | June 26, 2009 at 02:16 PM
ummm....you do have totally awesome fields of sunflowers! the first time my husband showed me a field of sunflowers just on the other side of the missouri/kansas border i was in awe! do you have any near you? if so...you have GOT to take pictures. those fields plus your photo skillz equals awesomeness...no joke ;)
love
anna marie
Posted by: Anna Marie | June 26, 2009 at 02:20 PM
Beautiful pictures! Would love to live in the country, but in the meantime, will happily live vicariously through your blog. :)
Posted by: Cate O'Malley | June 26, 2009 at 02:20 PM
Just voted. I love cake wrecks too, but you win, no contest!
GREAT pics, by the way. You really have a talen for finding beauty in everyday!
Posted by: Liana | June 26, 2009 at 02:36 PM
OMG! Absolutely amazing blog! Just brilliant! Feel so warm to be here!
Have a lovely day!
Deva
Posted by: Deva84 | June 26, 2009 at 02:37 PM
You must be a photographer...i just came across your blog yesterday and can't even remeber how...too much random time at work! But I had to ask what kind of camera you have. I know it's mostly skill but your pictures jump off the page! they are amazing! i love them!!
Posted by: ali | June 26, 2009 at 02:43 PM
You take seriously the most "lively" pictures! I love the one with the cows the best.
Posted by: Anne | June 26, 2009 at 03:00 PM
Never been to Kansas but your pictures are beautiful so Kansas must be too.
Posted by: Kathy | June 26, 2009 at 03:04 PM
Amazing pictures...love them! I grew up on a farm in Ohio and I miss it and that life whenever I see photos of corn, wheat, sunsets, tractors, etc...
Thanks for all the inspiration.
Posted by: angela | June 26, 2009 at 03:08 PM
Love Kansas, my parents met and married in Kansas, both my sisters were born there, my best friend in the world was born and raised there.
Posted by: Gram | June 26, 2009 at 03:25 PM
Your pictures are great! I love your "amber waves of grain" shot!
Posted by: Kelly | June 26, 2009 at 03:26 PM
Kansas certainly looks beautiful, I'll have to visit one day. Your blog got my vote!
Posted by: Karina | June 26, 2009 at 03:28 PM
Lovely picures - Kansas tourist board should hire you, you'd soon have the tourists flocking there :D
Posted by: rachel | June 26, 2009 at 03:39 PM
That's funny, we both did similar posts today about our little neighboring states :)
Posted by: Vera | June 26, 2009 at 04:11 PM
what you do mean no celebrities?! you have DOROTHY!! :)
Posted by: Kristine Robb | June 26, 2009 at 04:13 PM
I can see why you love it so much. These photos could easily be mistaken for rural Australia. There is a quiet, calm beauty all of its own that sort of steals its way around your senses. Meg, these photos are simply beautiful.
Do you do "best part/worst part" of your day with your kids at the dinner table? One of my "best" parts yesterday was your lovely comments on my blog - I felt really encouraged - thanks for being so generous. Meredith xo.
Posted by: Meredith | June 26, 2009 at 04:43 PM
yes...it is a lovely state! I enjoyed seeing all the combines "workin' it" out in the field. I've never been in June--usually in late fall-winter. No oceans-No starfish---but what you have is a mean sunset across a wheatfield!
Posted by: sarah keith | June 26, 2009 at 05:11 PM
Nothing like the Midwest. I love it. GORGEOUS pictures!!
Posted by: Becky @ Farmgirl Paints | June 26, 2009 at 05:49 PM
Yes, but you have summer thunderstorms that leave that sweet smell of wet grass when they are done; you have fire flies to run and catch in big glass jars with holes in the lid; you have clear skies not plagued with smog; and you have quiet summer suburb nights where you can leave the windows open and only hear the sounds of crickets. Kansas is a good place to live and your kids are your very own movie stars that you worship and adore. :)
Posted by: Rach | June 26, 2009 at 06:19 PM
I LOVE Kansas too. I'm always telling Ryan how beautiful Kansas is. And he always tells me I'm preaching to the chior. Great pics!
Posted by: gina entz | June 26, 2009 at 06:40 PM
I love farms. I wish I grew up on one. There's a little patch in the middle of my town that still grows corn. I get so excited to see it growing. I hope they never develop that land - it would be a horrible day for me!
Posted by: Angela Henrie | June 26, 2009 at 06:42 PM
beautiful. hoping to see it in person some day!
Posted by: Jenn | June 26, 2009 at 09:02 PM
You captured the Midwest beautifully! I love living in the Midwest - don't think I could ever leave!
Posted by: Erin | June 26, 2009 at 09:27 PM
I've been living on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland almost all my life and I never thought I could move to a middle-of-the-country state where all the land is flat. I am surrounded by mountains, ocean, reservoirs, bays, cities, etc. I would feel trapped in those middle states. Lol. But you sure make it beautiful with those pics!!
Posted by: Amber | June 26, 2009 at 10:14 PM
I am officially homesick now. "You can take a girl out of Kansas...."
(I recently discovered you, but this is my first comment:)
Posted by: jolyn | June 26, 2009 at 11:21 PM
These are lovely. Starfish and oceans are great, but there is something to be said about wide open spaces! Kansas looks beautiful!
Posted by: Keri | June 26, 2009 at 11:28 PM
hello,
here a message from a lurker in the Netherlands (so excuse me for my english and where the corn in the fields has not yet grown higher than 30 centimeters! yours is so high already!)
you have a great blog and make even greater pictures!
you're an inspiration!
after years of being busybusybusy with everything and everyone around me I came here to read and saw your creative powers.....
yeah! I remembered I have those powers too and was in shock when I realised I did not work with them for way to long!
shame on me!
so I digged up my creative stuff/ cleared out my craftroom and YESYESYES!
me happy!
thank you!
and keep on blogging, I love to read it!
Posted by: Meta | June 27, 2009 at 03:37 AM
Thank you for the beautiful photos. I've lived in Iowa and miss is so much.
Posted by: Kelly | June 27, 2009 at 06:08 AM
You can make a picture of a truck look incredible :) I love that Sean was playing Legos...alone....and I LOVE that he was singing Joy to the World :) Gonna go vote!
Posted by: Staci | June 27, 2009 at 07:28 AM
Stop. STOP! You're giving my WI dairy-farmer-husband, CROP-ENVY!
Still...beautiful. Just beautiful. TFS.
Posted by: Karen | June 27, 2009 at 07:41 AM
great photos. cuttin' wheat - i love that time of year. we won't be doing that until the mid to end of July. you need to be taking photos at the old farm. awesome.
Posted by: Traci | June 27, 2009 at 07:42 AM
I hear ya....it is beautiful!!! We are one of your neighboring states (OK) we live about 30 min. from the Kansas border.
I love looking at the wheat fields, I can see them from almost any window in our house.
Very nice pics you took!!
Posted by: katy | June 27, 2009 at 09:16 AM
Wonderful pictures!
sandy toe
Posted by: sandy toe | June 27, 2009 at 09:25 AM
It looks so beautiful!
Posted by: Cheryl Enlow | June 27, 2009 at 02:50 PM
Just moved here...you captured it perfect. Love the sunsets here.
Posted by: Heather Richter | June 28, 2009 at 08:36 AM
I want to learn to take pictures like this...amazing.
I love Kansas too. It's dreamy.
Posted by: Sara | June 29, 2009 at 01:33 PM
love how you captured the spirit of the midwest in these photos...they are fantastic!
chas
Posted by: chasity | June 30, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Oooh! I'm so happy I found your blog (via The Inspired Room's Melissa)!! I was born and raised in Kansas and now live in Colorado. It's so nice to be reminded of my roots and how much I still love it there. Thank you for the beautiful pictures. Seriously, Kansas is awesome!
Posted by: Ashley Crenshaw | July 02, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Just had to comment about this. I've lived in southern California my entire life,43 years. I've worked in the movie business and I know a lot of people. But here in so-cal. Everything is so contrived. People aren't real and you HAVE to lock your doors and car. We have a lot of traffic, the cost of living is rediculous and its a real challenge to instill family values in your kids when everyone is so concerned about what they wear & drive. I'm sure some areas have a sense of community but I dont have it for my kids. I'm a very outgoing person and I find it really hard to make meaningful relationships. I would move to the heartland in a hot minute if I could.
Posted by: Pansy Cottage Girl | July 04, 2009 at 03:52 PM
I live in Kansas! Born and raised. It gets boring sometimes but I have lots of green space around me, No horrible traffic, nice people that wave at you when you are driving even if they don't know you, a house that I could never afford anywhere else, good schools and great neighbors. Wouldn't live anywhere else.
Posted by: erin | July 07, 2009 at 09:29 PM
Those pics could be from my family farm! I'm now a city girl in the East and I do miss the wide open spaces in SW Kansas! The best sunsets and the golden waves of grain are truly breathtaking!
Posted by: Lori | August 12, 2009 at 02:40 PM