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a portrait of my son, once a week, every week in 2016

Jimmy: Kicking up some dust at Konza Prairie...

We kept asking him not to! He even walked through some dust he'd kicked up and didn't like it, but he didn't stop it. Going to Konza on Sunday was the highlight of the week and Michael has captured Jimmy in all his Kansas-ness while at Konza beautifully.

Jimmy has grown so much since we left Australia, but Kansas-constants have been those fruit shorts, sunnies, him stricting out and exerting his independence, long sleeve tops with buttons (we've all collected a few while we've been here), my old backpack, and a bold combination of colours and prints that clash but work together because they clash. That's our boy.

Over the weekend we...

Were joined a group of friends and went for an early morning walk around Konza Prairie Biological Station. Now, when I say "early", we started walking around 7:30am, and when I say "we", I mean the five or so of us who arrived a little later than the others, who were about 30 minutes ahead of us.

Why so early? Well, it's summer here and the days can be very hot, so the idea was to get a walk in before the day became too hot. And thanks to the cloud cover (and rain) the morning stayed a nice warm temperature. Yay!

It's been a while since Michael, Jimmy, and I had been in the area - and even then we didn't do any walks - so we were enjoying every little thing, including this tiny toad that was the same colour as the path.

I'm so happy Konza Prairie Biological Station exists, because I think it's very important to develop a really sound understanding of an area's ecosystems and ecology, and that is exactly what the Biological Station has been working out.

There are lots of photos to come, just press read more...