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Images # A58-340,342,345; I captured these picturesque landscape images in the early morning sunlight while traveling on the 42-mile scenic byway through Barber and Comanche Counties past the ancient red shale and sandstone formations of the rugged Gypsum Hills. Named for the underlying layers of gypsum, the Gypsum or "Red" Hills are unique in Kansas. Their distinctive color comes from the iron in the soil that "rusts" when exposed. The red bluffs and stark flat-topped buttes are capped with white gypsum. The area is noted for its abundance of wildflowers in spring and summer; and its abundant wildlife as well. You just might see deer, turkey, quail, pheasant, raccoons, skunks, beaver, bobcats, porcupine and the occasional armadillo!
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