Mom always said that anytime in the summer there was something blooming in the old tall grass prairies that were turned into wheat fields, then farms and abandoned and then with fire control and tree planting have become pine and oak forests.
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| Butterfly on butterfly weed plant |
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| Lead Plant -- prairie legume |
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| Hazel nuts grow all over |
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| Blueberry that has dried out the fruit |
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| Poison Ivy is all over |
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| The summer of 1970 I spent as the Sterling fire tower man |
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| Mom attended the Evergreen School in the 1930s |
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| Just west of Parker Hill on Evergreen is the old Fred Parker place. He and his family lived there until one day, despondent about his alcoholism, Christ Christenson found him hanging nearby in the barn. |
