Bring on May! May is much needed this year to bring some needed cheer. It’s a month of colorful flowers blooming, including two of my favorites, lilacs and peonies. It brings warm spring days which draw people outdoors into the sunshine. Bonfires are enjoyed during the cooler evenings and BBQ suppers are on the menu. New baby calves are bouncing around the greening pasturelands and song birds can be heard.

The farm and grass lands make their annual colorful patterns, much like a designed quilt. Green fields of wheat wave as the Kansas winds stir things up once in a while. Browns of the...