Here are 107 photographs from December, 2013.
With these I completed my “Circle Around the Sun.”
I photographed Nine Mile Prairie an average of twice a week for an entire year.
It has taken another year to process the photographs
and to publish them to this website.

Dec 1 Dawn at the East Fence Line

Fuzzy Seed Head in Gray Light

High Wispy Clouds of a Morning

Sunrise Through Sumac

Sage Gone Blue

A Big Batch of Bittersweet Catching Morning Sun

Goldenrod Seedheads Side Lit

Curly Frosted Grass

Goldenrods Backlit

Grassy Cowlick

Down Slope to a Draw

Through A Few Young Trees to a Hillside

A Few Dark Seed Heads in Golden Grass

Grass Seed Head Backlit

Mullein Leaves Frosted on the Ground

Delicate Shafts of Morning Light Through Brown Grass

Foxtail and Barb Wire

Lincoln Electric System’s Power Lines Along the South Border

A Marshy Spot at the East End of the South Draw

Bushwhack Place

Soft December Light on a South Draw Hillside

Past a Rasberry Bramble into the South Draw Woods

Down Tree with White Disc Fungus CU

Down Tree with White Disc Fungus

The Grassy Wet Groove of the South Draw

Down Tree Impediment in the South Draw

Down Tree Tangle in the South Draw

Dead Tree with Shelf Fungus Colony

Shelf Fungus Colony

Marshy Wide Spot in the South Draw

Grassy Hummock in the South Draw

Crossing Place in the South Draw

Milkweed Mangle

High White Wisps

Plum Bush Black Against a Gray Sky Morning

Right Next to a Black Plum Bush Patch

Hillside to Hillside Across a Dark Draw

Grass Meets Bush Edge

Grass Meets Bush Edge – Wide

A Symphony of Browns, Duns, and Creams

The Well

The Seep Frozen – Wide

The Seep Frozen – CU

The Seep Frozen – Down From Above

Blond Grass – Dark Vines

Big Vines Place in the South Draw

Big Vines Place in the South Draw – MS

Big Vines Place in the South Draw – CU

Bird Box 30

Evidence of Recent Deer Presence

The Place I Call The Deer Par

Juniper Edge

The Edge of Starkness

The Edge Effect 1

The Edge Effect 2

The Edge Effect 3

Game Trail Into the Brush

The Edge Effect 4

Faint Game Trail Under a Small Tree

At the Mouth of the Upper South Draw

Spiky Seed Pod Gone Brown

Headed East Into the Marshy Part of the Big South Draw

Broken Tree Limbs on the Ground

Woody Plants Support Dead Grass

Gateway to the Middle Marsh in the South Draw

Elderly Thorny Locust Spikes

Mullein Seed Head

Mullein Seed Head CU

Hanging Twig with Green Moss

Twin Trunk Trees

Twin Trunk Trees Higher Up

A Clearing Where a Big Tree Dropped Limbs

At the Edge of the Big Cedar Grove

Stark Gray Edge Marching Onto the Prairie

Gray December Wide Shot

Carnivore Turd Frozen

One Year Mark

Grass and Snow on the First Hillside

Twigs in Snow

Snow Knocks Down Grass

Sunlight Filtered Through Trees Onto Snow on the Draw Hillside

Snow on a Bough

Naked Cottonwood Branches Against December’s Blue

Sunlight Goes To Work on a Snow Covered Down Tree

Sunlight Penetrates the Draw Lightng Up Tracks in the Snow

At the Base of Grandmother Cottonwood

Tree Shadows on the Snow Covered Path

Snow Covered Path Crossing the South Draw

At the Seep in the Snow

Looking Into the Snowy Draw From Above

Snowy Game Trail in Deer Park

Self Portrait After One Year

Buck Scrape

Deer Tracks Into the Prairie Snow

Sumac Stand in the Snow

Near the Head of the South Draw

Through the Brush Along the South Fence

Bumpy Snow

Kandinsky Might Like This One

The Gully Where the East Draw Joins the South Draw

The Base of the Big Boy Cottonwood

Snow in the Crotch of the Big Boy Cottonwood

Up the Trunk of the Big Boy Cottonwood

At the Five Sisters in the Snow

In the Shadow of the Five Sisters in the Snow

Composition at the Five Sisters in the Snow

Grass Stalks and Shadows in the Snow