Textures of the Konza Prairie:

Sumac – rough as sandpaper
Dried flower – felt as soft as a rabbit tail
Big blue stem – thin and soft like a cloud
Flint rocks were smooth
Limestone – rough and holey like an old sock
Buffalo grass – tiny – like matted hair
Dogwood – smooth as a baby’s skin
Rocks on the trail – smooth, hard
Grasses – three-headed, turkey feet, Indian grass – silky
Valley – looked like a painting of texture
Valley – quilt of patterns
Leaves glistened in the sun – crushed velvet

Colors of the Konza Prairie:

The valley was a rainbow of color.
Purple aster – rich blue violet
Sumac – looked like grapes on a stem
Water in the creek – glistening rainbow
The hills were orange and yellowish as a pumpkin.
I saw a patch of prairie field that was light green as spring leaves.
I saw limestone that was gray as smoke.
Dogwood that was maroon as a Dr. Pepper can.
Indian grass that was brown as a tree trunk.
Flint that was smooth and very gray.
Big blue stem grass that was golden with a blue tint.
The leaves on the tree and ground looked like an ocean of color such as red, green, and golden yellow.
I saw the leaves on the dogwood tree, brownish red.
When looking at a hill, grass can be gold as gold can be.
The creek was crystal clear.
The creek was as blue as the sky.
The rose hips were bright cherry red.
At the top of the peak there were patches of color like gold, yellow, shades of green and brown.
The green field was as bright green as a turtle.
The rocks were all shades of color especially gray, tan, dusty brown.
The baby grasshoppers were brownish green.

Sights of the Konza Prairie:

Big rock covered with fossils, huge, fossilly
The sight from the top of the hill was beautiful as the many leaves on the ground.
The barn and smokehouse – built by a Swedish man in 1800s
Golden fields of grasses
Steep, rolling Kansas hills
Flat-top hills that looked like giant tepees
Leaves, grasses, and branches blowing in the wind
Green grasshoppers showing orangish, yellow wings
Grasshoppers camouflaged on the trail
Hooved deer prints on the trail – size of your palm
Old, large, slanted oak tree with yellow, brown, and green leaves
Puffed up roots of trees coming out of the ground by the creek
Shiny, blackish, gray tadpoles and minnows swimming in circles around the creek
Big squares of marbled limestone near the top of the hill
Beaver-chewed trunks of trees lying horizontal to the ground
Brown acorns with little hats on top
Sharp-edged flint rocks, charcoal grayish in color, triangular shaped
Black, round, cutoff woodpecker holes

Smells of the Konza Prairie:

Smell of flowers as good as perfume
Fresh air – reminds me of being free from the inside
King’s Creek – pristine water
Fall leaves, acorns
Rose hips
Smell of grass – earthy smell
Smell of trees
Smell of the plains – pure air
Fiery smell
Smell of fresh cedars – Christmasy
Smell of horses, cattle, livestock
Small of ragweed, Indian grass, blue asters, Big Blue

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