Beautiful Details in Kansas

the author, child in tow                                                               Nathan Ward

Sometimes it's a small as a western painted turtle, sometimes as expansive as the 64-square-mile Cheyenne Bottoms basin, stopover for 45 to 90 percent of North America's shorebirds and home to about 100 bird species. Or as spiritually fulfilling as an organic farm tended by the Dominican Sisters of Peace. The 77-mile-long Wetlands and Wildlife National Scenic Byway unfolds its majesty for a bicycling family: http://www.adventurecycling.org/adventure-cyclist/recent-features/seeking-magic-in-the-heartland-of-kansas/