Lovely Moon Flowers

I can hardly wait until late summer each year for the moon flowers to bloom.  There is no sweeter fragrance or delicately detailed petals that is known to me.  Like so many things that have such awesome beauty, they are short lived.  Each blossom only lasts one night and then they are gone.  I've tried many times to bring them inside wishing they might last a few days and bring their sweet fragrance with them but they are stubborn creatures.  They refuse to relinquish their nature.

Union Pacific Steam Engine #844

The Union Pacific Steam Engine that stopped in WaKeeney as a part of their anniversary celebration in August.

 They just couldn't wait to 'blow off a little steam'  to impress the crowd.  The railroad has  been a part of WaKeeney's transportation system just as the Smoky Hill Trail, the Butterfield Overland Despatch Trail, Highway 40 and 283 and Interstate 70.  No longer is there a passenger train that stops in WaKeeney but loads of coal and wheat regularly pass through.  Occasionally you'll see rail cars loaded with wind generator propellers headed to a new wind farm.