Frolicking in springlike weather

Hopscotch, top photo, is just the ticket for, clockwise from top, Grace Clark, 10, Sophie Tate, 8, and Rich Brown, 9. The neighborhood friends had a tall goal for their afternoon play Thursday: build a hopscotch game on the Indiana Street sidewalk from Seventh Street to Eighth Street. By 4 p.m., they were a fourth of the way done, with a total of about 120 boxes drawn. Billy Price, bottom photo, of Lawrence, takes flight while launching his parafoil-style kite at the KU intramural fields at 23rd and Iowa streets. Price and friends took advantage of the warm temperatures and strong south winds Thursday to get rides from the huge kite.