RUBY SLIPPERS--

Liberal, Kansas is noted for, what else, The Wizard of Oz. I had always thought it was just a movie but now I know it really happened. Here are Dorothy’s shoes to prove it.  So, it wasn't a political, economic parable of the late, Great Depression after all. 

Francisco Coronado stopped by Liberal, before he knew it would be Liberal, and gave birth to break dancing.

A young Meadowlark drys its feathers in the morning fog.

We're staying at Nancy's Western Star RV Park just east of Liberal, KS.  Her and her hubby farm 15,000 acres, (corn, sorghum, hay)run a few beef and pay more interest to the bank than they make in profit for the year.  The RV park was Nancy's idea.  She says, "I needed to be able to talk with people, the cows just moo'ed."

A squall moved though blackening the sky and their farmhouse windows reflected the setting sun.