Tag: prairie

Prairie skies

The view from the roadside across a section of prairie I pass on the way to town. It rained hard a couple hours after I took this photo. If you look along the horizon, you can see the heavy gray of the storm moving in from the...

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Tickseed & leather-wings

Tickseed sunflower (Bidens aritosa) This daisy-like flower appears in late August and blooms well into the fall. I suppose they can grow about anywhere, but I see them mostly in the lower ends of pastures and prairies where the...

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Bee balm

Wild bergamot aka horsemint, bee balm Monarda fistulosa I didn’t see so much of it during the drought the last two years, but a wet spring seems to have rejuvenated the prairie flowers. I’ve found a few small patches...

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Way over there

The prairie chickens returned to their booming grounds just before sunset a few days ago. My daughter and I watched them for nearly an hour as they made their way across a wheat field and then began their display. One stayed a...

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Booming grounds

This morning I got up early and drove to the Taberville Prairie conservation area to watch the prairie chickens. Turns out, the current booming grounds are on private property across the road from this lovely piece of prairie. I...

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Prairie skies

I drive along a section of the Wah’Kon-Tah Prairie going to and from town. This evening, I pulled onto a side road and shot photos across the rolling hills of the Johnson tract, a 320-acre portion added in 1992. The...

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