Latest photos by Richard Gwin

Meat thermometers and clean utensils can keep food-borne bacteria from running the fun of outdoor ... May 3, 2013	A Kansas Department of Transportation snowplow heads east on U.S. HWY 24 Sunday March 24, ... March 26, 2013	Michael Beard, executive chef at 715 restaurant, 715 Mass. in Lawrence, prepares an appetizer of ... October 15, 2012
The fegalo appetizer is an occasional special at 715, 715 Mass. The dish, served atop ... October 15, 2012	Michael Beard, executive chef at 715 restaurant, 715 Mass. in Lawrence, prepares his fegalo appetizer. ... October 15, 2012	Richard Bean points out a queen bee, which can lay up to 2,000 eggs a ... October 3, 2012
Richard Bean displays a tray of bee pollen collected from one of the hives at ... October 3, 2012	Richard Bean's Blossom Trail Bee Ranch, near Baldwin City, produces and sells honey, honeycomb and ... October 3, 2012	Richard Bean inspects trays of honeycomb in one of the hives he keeps at his ... October 3, 2012
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, left, participates in an online chat regarding the Affordable Care ... September 11, 2012	Truebud BBQ team member Boyd Abts of Eudora pulls a slab of ribs off the ... August 28, 2012	Truebud BBQ pitmaster Tim Grant, Tonganoxie, cleans up extra brisket after the last meat turn-in ... August 28, 2012
Truebud BBQ pitmaster Tim Grant, Tonganoxie, with help from Boyd Abts of Eudora, prepares chicken ... August 28, 2012	Sisters (from left) Laureen Shumate 12, Lacey Shumate 7, and Logan Shumate, 9, all of ... August 27, 2012	Enjoying a carousel ride together, Scott Komarek and his son Hudson, 2 1/2, took part ... August 27, 2012
A few hours of picking at Richardson's Orchard, located between Lawrence and Tonganoxie, yielded buckets ... August 21, 2012	Clara Richardson waits for the next apple-seeking customer at the Lawrence Farmers Market on a ... August 21, 2012	Ernie and Clara Richardson, Lawrence, started an apple orchard in the early ’90s and it’s ... August 21, 2012
Roger Brandt of Basehor works the track on his 1935 A John Deere. July 17, 2012	Pamela Milleret, 24, of Lawrence, waits for her turn for a pull on an old ... July 17, 2012