Inspired by my lovely and very talented friend, Synke, I’ve decided to move my Photo Bucket List out of Evernote and publish it as part of my blog.

What do you recommend that I add to my list, either around Kansas City, a close drive away, or elsewhere in the world?

Local

• Tag Monarch Butterflies with MonarchWatch.org
• Plant Milkweed through MonarchWatch.org
• Hike the Cedar Crest Trail
• Smithville Lake, Clay County, MO
• Jamesport
• Independence Square Walking Tour
• Finish my Kansas City Fountains and Kansas City Sculptures Lists
• Amelia Earheart’s Home, Atchison, KS
• Experience the Duck Derby
• Overland Park Farmer’s Market
• John Wornall House
• Alexander Majors House
• Bingham-Wagner Estate
• Eat at the Original Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que
• Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop
• Pendleton Farm Butterfly Bio-Villa
• Shatto Milk, Osborn, MO
• Prairie Park Nature Center, Lawrence, Kansas
• Cedar Cove Feline Sanctuary, Louisburg, Kansas
• Topeka Zoo, Topeka, Kansas
• Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge, Pleasanton, Kansas
• Nelson Atkins Shuttlecocks – See one here and one here, but I want to keep trying
• Equality House in Topeka – See My Post
• Powell Gardens – See My Posts
• Kauffman Garden – See My Posts
• Brown v Board of Education – See My Posts
• Truman Presidential Library – See My Posts

Weekend Trip

• Meet the Clydesdales at Warm Springs Ranch
• Bridges of Madison County, Iowa
• Photograph the Molecule Man statue in Council Bluffs, IA at the Mid-America Center
• Wichita Botanica Garden #KSBucketList
• Monument Rocks and Castle Rock in Grove County, Kansas
• Lindsborg, KS and Nearby Coranado Heights #KSBucketList
• Little House on the Prairie Museum, Independence, KS
• Ingalls Homestead, De Smet, SD
• Pillsbury Loop
• Hike the Konza Prairie
• Flint Hills National Wildlife Preserve, Hartford, KS
• Alcove Spring, Near Blue Rapids, KS
• Four State Lookout, White Cloud, KS
• Seelye Mansion, Abilene, Kansas
• Mushroom Rock State Park, Marquette #KSBucketList
• Nicodemus National Historic Site, Nicodemus #KSBucketList
• Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway, Barber and Comanche Counties, KS
• Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, Canton #KSBucketList
• Mushroom State Park and Rock City, Ellsworth and Ottawa Counties, KS
• Katy Trail, MO
• Highway 2, Nebraska
• Highway Z, Missouri
• Covered Bridge Near Jamestown Wildlife Refuge and Snow Goose Lodge
• The Safari Zoological Park, Carney, Kansas
• Eagle Valley Raptor Center, Garden City, Kansas
• Tanganyika Wildlife Park, Goddard, Kansas
• Hutchinson Zoo, Hutchinson, Kansas
• Milford Nature Center, Junction City, Kansas
• Sunset Zoo, Manhattan, Kansas
• Rolling Hills Zoo, Salina, Kansas
• Sedgwick County Zoo, Wichita, Kansas
• Cimarron National Grasslands, Elkhart #KSBucketList
• Clark Drug, Soda & Ice Cream Parlor, Cimarron #KSBucketList
• Big Basin Prairie Preserve, Ashland, Kansas
• Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA
• Eisenhower Presidential Library – See My Post

Farther

• Drive the Pacific Coast Highway from Seattle to Santa Barbara
• Visit Iceland
• Travel the Entire Route 66 as Inspired by Route 66 Backroads, Illinois to California
• The Keeper of the Plains and Footbridge, Wichita
• Berlin, Germay
• Visit Norway
• See More of Sweden
• Ohio River Scenic Byway, Cincinnati to Louisville
• Bourbon Trail, Kentucky
• White Sands National Monument
• Charleston, SC
• Philadelphia, PA
• Custer State Park, SD
• Mount Rushmore
• Glacier Park, MT
• Flathead Lake, MT
• Hearst Castle
• Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC
• Drive from Miami to Key West
• Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, Lancaster, CA in Late March
• Hana Highway, Maui
• Ben & Jerry’s, Vermont
• Acadia National Park, Maine
• Great River Road, Minnesota to Louisiana
• Galena, IL
• Going-to-the-Sun Road, Montana
• Bodie Historic State Park, California
• New Zealand
• Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA
• Nixon Presidential Library, Yorba Linda, CA
• Johnson Library, Austin, TX
• Bush Presidential Library, Dallas, TX
• Bush Presidential Library, College Station, TX
• Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, AR
• Ford Presidential Library, Grand Rapids, MI
• Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY
• Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, MA
• Photograph the Palace of Fine Arts at Night – See My Posts
• Walk Across the Golden Gate Bridge – See My Posts
• Yellowstone National Park – See My Posts
• Bliss Dance Sculpture at Night – sadly the Bliss Dance sculpture was removed in May 2015, so I’ll only have my daytime shot

Other Things

• Improve My Photoshop / Lightroom Skills
• Take More Photography Classes
• Get WAY Better at Night Photography
• Capture an Owl
• Take a Decent Photo of a Swan – My Feeble Attempts So Far
• Buy a Real Camera