johnson school #20

doesn't exactly look like michael landon does it?

although melissa gilbert could pass for the real laura...

hayroof barn: 'built with a hay roof as charles described in his homestead proving-up papers.'

inside the hayroof barn

the little house on the prairie... or at least a reconstruction 'on the location and to the dimensions of the ingalls claim shanty built by charles ingalls in the spring of 1880.'

livestock barn

inside the livestock barn

water pump: 'pa dug six feet deep to find water.'

l.i.w. memorial site:

'this corner was donated to the l.i.w. memorial soceiety after laura's death in 1957.

'five cottonwood trees remain of the thousands that pa planted on his homestead claim.

'these last living cottonwood trees are dedicated to pa's five girls.

'laura said during her 1937 visit to desmet, 'yes, these are trees my pa planted.''

i caught my first ever unidentified flying objects in this shot. look just to the left of my head.

bits of pollen? i think not.

look at that flying formation. the aliens are coming.