Symphony in the Flint Hills

Just a few snaps from our second trip to Symphony in the Flint Hills on Saturday.

This year, the event was on the Doyle Creek Land and Cattle Company located between Florence and Strong City, south of Cedar Point, the closest it's been to Wichita in the four years it's been going on. Here is the concert shell where the Kansas City Symphony played.

The weather couldn't have been more perfect, warm but not hot, sunny, a little breeze. We arrived about 4 p.m. to relax, eat and drink before the music started about 6:30.


The event sells out every year, with about 5,000 people attending.


Tents like this are set up all over the event, with various activities going on most of the day. There's an art tent, a poetry-reading area, and one tent under which cowboys talk about their work on the ranch. They also sell food and beverages. This was the first year they didn't allow ticketholders to bring in their own wine, which was kind of disappointing.


We invited two couples who we wanted to get to know a little better, Jill and Tom Docking....


And Karyn Page and her boyfriend, Mark.

Jill and Dale have known each other professionally for many years.

Karen is president of the World Trade Office in Wichita, and works pretty closely with Dale.

I wish I had spent more time and energy getting some good photos, but I don't think I can do justice to the beauty of the landscape. And I was having too much fun to bother much with photos.