Relief in Western Kansas

While it rains across the state of Kansas tonight, one can sense spring advancing and hope for some healing of the land after the scorching wildfire earlier this month. Out of the starkness of widespread devastation of the shortgrass prairie, generosity breathes life back into small towns. Here, from the fairgrounds of Ashland in Clark County, is a repository of donated hay to keep the livestock alive until the grass can grow back. Convoys of trucks from Michigan arrived during our Sunday dinner, honking their horns on their way to unload. The rain this week is another type of generosity, and Ashland reports three inches of accumulation so far. We took down our old fence and rolled up the scorched wire. In with the new, as we watch the grass begin to grow, an ecosystem restoration of grand proportion.