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