Another interesting Rest Stop

On Saturday we started our days drive from Joplin Missouri.  For our lunch time break we found this prairie rest stop in Kansas.  There was a short trail to walk and it had numerous signs along the way with historic happenings listed.  Also if you looked closely you could spot all the different kinds of wild flowers that grow.  There was plenty of them.

This rest stop is 29 miles from Fort Scott, Kansas – it is part of a designated national wild life refuge.  At the end of the little trail that we walked here is a pond that looked like it never goes dry and there was a lot of plant life and supposed to be a lot of birds and what not although we didn’t really see much.  That is our motor home in the parking lot there all by itself  – we almost had the place to ourselves.  One big semi truck in the parking lot and one or two cars up in the upper level where the cars park.

This is some type of mimosa plant, the leaves are the same as on other varieties of that plant I have seen but the flowers look different, the blossoms were larger and had a kind of reddish center in them.

I don’t know what these are – some kind of poppy maybe?  I know I have seen this when we travel to the west but I don’t have my book handy.  I will need to get the flower/plant book out and start looking through it once again to get familiar with names of the plants once again.

This is the rest stop building, fairly new and nice design.  We have found that a lot of places over the last 5 or 10 years have spent more time building new buildings and updating rest stops to make them nicer for tourist.

We had no internet connection on Saturday or Sunday so I will be posting this blog post when I can.  You will find this trip that what I post at times will be several days after the fact.  I’m not sure when I will have internet service this trip so I will be scheduling some posts in advance to post on certain days.