Kansas state flower

Hundreds of murals dot the Kansas landscape, lending a touch of outer space to downtown Leavenworth with a “Star Trek” Spock mural, or in numerous communities reminding people they’re visiting the Sunflower State with splashes of the golden flowers and meadowlarks.

Sometime back I talked about our return to dryland farming. One of the things I will miss with this change is being surrounded by fields of gold. Some…