Hometown Spirit, Holy Spirit
My dog came home from leg surgery with purple stitches. His vet graduated from Kansas State and is a huge Wildcats fan. K-State fever, thanks in no small part to the university's agricultural extension offices here in the post rock district, has painted the area purple. 
The Wildcats logo appears on limestone house markers, tees, . . .
The Swell District
Hastings, Nebraska
The closest Menards is a little over an hour away in Hastings, Nebraska. I'm a little freaked out by the limited season of garden departments in the area. We're used to being able to go to a nursery in Southern California every day of the year for a wide variety of plants including vegetables for winter gardening.
. . .The Dew Point and Purple Coneflowers
. . .This country was mostly wild pasture and as naked as the back of your hand . . . So the country and I had it out together and by the end of the first autumn, that shaggy grass country had gripped me with a passion I have never been able to shake. It has been the happiness and the curse of my life. — Willa Cather
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