"I wish to take this opportunity to welcome one and all to the headquarters for the Rural Kansas "Rocks" Foundation (hereafter known as the RKRF.) I have been considering starting this blog for a while, but it took time to train my human be able to to channel my thoughts. Such a primitive mind. At any rate, I have found that there is actually more to life than simply sitting around shedding water and soaking up the sun. I know, I found it hard to believe too at first, but these humans might just have something here with this seemingly meaningless meandering all around the Sunflower State. I've rolled to more interesting places and met more of our brethren in a short span of time with my human than my previous eons of life. My universe has indeed grown.
Membership in the RKRF is free (hey, what's money to us rocks?) and I encourage all adventurous rocks out there who have already bonded with a human to join up and unite as one voice while we get out there and roll across our great state.
So take 'er easy - like what else is a rock gonna do, right? - and see you down the road!
Harpo
The Septarian of the Hills
RKRF Member #1
RURAL KANSAS ROCKS!!!
The president at Mushroom Rock State Park, Ellsworth County, Kansas, May 22, 2004.
Attending the family reunion in Salina, Saline County, Kansas, May 23, 2004.
At Rock City Park, Ottawa County, Kansas, May 24, 2004.
In 1971 the Waldon Rothenberger family began rock hunting in Osborne County, Kansas. That same year they found Harpo sitting and minding his own carefree business a few miles south of where this photo was taken in the Blue Hills Uplands. Contrary to popular belief, rocks really don't like to be disturbed - to them, little or no change is exactly what life ought to be.
A embankment of Blue Hill Shale slowly being eroded away by Covert Creek in central Osborne County, Kansas. Distant cousins of Harpo can be found at sites like this all through the Blue Hills Uplands.
The president visiting the former site of the town of Strawberry, Washington County, Kansas, January 2005.
Visiting the National Bohemian Cemetery near Cuba in Republic County, Kansas, January 2005.
The president has been a popular feature of the Osborne County Tourism booth at the Kansas Sampler Festival since 2002. Above, with Bob "Buffalo Jones" Eickhoff at the Garden City Sampler, May 6, 2006.
