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The View from Sunflower Gardens
By Marilyn Bentley
Last Updated: July 12, 2018

Kansas has many landforms, rivers

The residents of Sunflower Gardens have come from many states.

Kansas has a variety of landforms and rivers and we like them all.

We are part of the Arkansas River lowlands.

The western part of Kansas is an area called the High Plains.

Much of north central Kansas is the Smoky Hills area of high hills.

Southwest Kansas, near the Oklahoma border, is an area called the Red Hills. Soil is reddish due to iron deposits near Medicine Lodge.

We all love the north to south area of green, flint covered and good for cattle grazing with few trees called the Flint Hills. Very scenic.

The northeast corridor of Kansas is called the Glaciated Region, which includes Topeka, Atchison and Kansas City.

A large area of southeast Kansas is called the Osage Cuestas. It's named for the Osage Indian. Some is high ground and scenic.

All land makes us Kansas Proud.

We like our Monday coffee chats, Tuesday Bible study, potluck dinners, Mennonite music concerts and sing-alongs, game nights and walks down our halls.

Verse of the week: “A new commandment I give you that you love one another as I have loved you." (John 13:34)

Remember to keep in prayer all our troops, their families, our Congress, president, home builders and road workers.

Remember to buckle up — it's the law.

We are glad for all travelers in Kansas to have travel information centers for helpful information about an area.

We have locations of many colleges, farm areas and shopping center, etc.

These centers give us the information of points of regional interest and historic places.

Good rest areas along wide highways give us pet exercise areas, clean restrooms, restaurants, gas stations and picnic areas.

We are glad we have a Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism.

There are many miles of Kansas turnpike and Kansas Interstate 70.

It's still the area of buffalo, wheat, cattle and Kansas kids.

In Kansas, we find a variety of immigrant heritage. We have Scandinavians around Lindsborg, and Russians and Germans in Topeka area, and Hispanic near Wichita and Kansas City.

We like to sing our state song — “Home on the Range:"

“Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam / Where the deer and the antelope play / Where seldom is heard a discouraging word / And the sky is not cloudy all day."

We also like “My country, ‘tis of thee, / Sweet land of liberty. / Of thee I sing. / Land where my fathers died, / Land of the pilgrims' pride / From every mountainside / Let freedom ring."

Did you know … Fort Riley, near Manhattan, was the cradle of the U.S. Calvary for 83 years? And Barton County was named for Clara Barton, a Civil War nurse?

“Be kind, anyway." — Mother Teresa




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