Colors of Evening

     

We stopped from gas and have our lunch along Highway 24 in Norbroune, Missouri. These are  some houses in a town of 600. 

 We followed an old highway 24 from Hannibal, Missouri across Missouri today under overcast skies. There was just a scattering of showers with highs in the 90s. We agreed, as we passed towns of 600 and less people that the consolidation of farms into large tracks of corn and soybeans. Old homesteads fallen into ruin  overrun with vines stood surrounded by neglected trees and barns with slumping ruins were spotted along the road. There are some beautiful new homes with acres of mown grass sprinkled between the rolling fields. It was small farms and diverse crops that was missing as it is in many rural areas in the midwest.  It is clear that people must do something else other than farm to make their living, at least if it is small farming you would like to do. It was good view of the middle of Missouri which ended at Kansas City where we crossed into Kansas and headed for Lawrence which hosts the University of Kansas.
       

Native Grassland in the Park. You can almost picture the bison grazing. 

Tonight we are enjoying another Corps of Engineers Lake Clinton, sited in a very large State Park with 3 very large camp grounds with many trees as well as grasslands being returned to the native grasses. We met a couple with a Casita they just picked up last year on our walk tonight through the park. They remarked that they had seen our Escape and hoped to meet us. There is, it seems, this little fraternity among fiberglass trailer owners. They are from Arizona and headed to Michigan to visit family during a 6 week trip. We compared experiences and common friends we have met at fiberglass rallies. As we walked on the sky, as the sun set, just lit up with the most wonderful light.
     

Sunset in clouds near Lawrence, Kansas Lake Clinton