Thats pretty good shots, Konrad! That's a little plus getting that owl too, cool....

Konrad, Nice old Lutheran Church. This Spring, you can take a sun photo, eh? Eric

Sounds good...

Anglo....I just read your post on “someone else’s” post. It was the exactly the way Topeka was...and it is still accepting of others. My DD’s family lives there and I live 65 miles from there...so I go there often. They have wonderful Catholic High school there now, as well as several elementary schools ...in fact, I have three grandchildren who are/have attended them. Many students attend their schools because of the high quality education and standards they maintain, even though they are not Catholic. Topeka is still a diverse city and hopefully it will stay that way. The Menninger’s were world known for their work, but they have all passed and the foundation is no longer in operation. I think there are 6 high schools there (or in the immediate surroundings)...two large hospitals...and the NOTO district in north Topeka is an arts area and developing nicely. The old downtown where we had all of the clothing stores has past...shopping gone out to malls. Mead’s is now on the historic register and has several yearly events. Forbes Air Force base has closed and now has several businesses and an air museum out there. You need to make a trip back there some day and walk down memory lane. I grew up in a little town near Emporia and we always had a lot of section gangs...always Mexican workers. They pretty well stayed to theirselves...except for pay day and then they walked to our “beer joint “ to get beer and go back to their work train. Our little town NEVER had any blacks, so I never knew what that would have been like to go to school with them, but a year ago the Methodist church assigned a black minister (who was married to a white woman)..WOW what a shock for that little town! I would say he is pretty well accepted, but many have started attending other churches...don’t know if it was because of his race or preaching. I am not sure it still is on their books or not, but when I was still living there, there was an ordinance that all blacks were to be out of town by sundown or they would be locked up in the little limestone “jail” or taken out of the city at day break. (I need to call city hall and see if it has changed.) I am sorry to high jack your original post!, but Topeka caught my eye!