By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Board Columnist

A new moon cast a strange light on the Kansas flatlands as I drove from Denver to Kansas City on Halloween following a week at a multicultural education convention.

The bizarre scene I encountered on the night time Interstate 70 drive could create an annual ritualistic for future Halloweens. Appearing to the north near Russell, Kan., were ghostly images of the many gargantuan blades of windmills.

They swept the sky like cartwheeling spirits capturing the wind to produce electricity. But the many windmills also seemed to move across the Kansas prairie like tumbleweeds. They appeared in the moonlight to leave their concrete base and stride across the landscape. It caused me to do many double takes.

Seeing such a sight could be an annual fund-raising attraction akin to concerts that the symphony puts on each year on the prairie. People could dress up in their best Halloween costumes to enjoy the spectacle and even take pictures.