The view from a ranch in Attica, Kansas.

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Red wheat, grown as an alternative use for these plots.

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Behind the house is an interruption of the treeless flatness, a shallow draw containing trees.

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Neighboring ranch is owned by a BP (other other global energy company) on which is built a huge wind farm.

Accompanying the staff with breakfast for a new herd of different stock.

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Hired man Bob (?) drives out to feed breakfast to this tiny herd.

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Consuming breakfast, high-nutrition feed.

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This retired horse formerly belonged to Mary's husband.

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From the front the original house appears much as when originally built.

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The original tornado shelter, recongizanble to us all thanks to The Wizard of Oz. "Unpleasant to occupy," says Mary. Snakes love them. A successor shelter has been dug beneath the house.

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Mary loaned us her room for a night. The house interior was upgraded a lot, perhaps starting witih insulation.

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Mary and husband built an addition on the rear.