A little Walk across the Prairie to the Second Draw after a Light Snow. There was Good Water down in the Draw and the Wet Snow coated the Trees. Over in the Big South Draw there is a Blow Down from a few years ago that makes for some Hard Going. And back to the East, the Grandmother Cottonwood is still standing but She’s losing Limbs fast these Days…
Tag: Cold
After the January 2017 Ice Storm
A big winter storm hit most of Nebraska and parts of the midwest on the weekend of January 14, 2017 coating everything in layer of ice. The freezing rain and drizzle lasted for most of three days shutting down events and closing schools even after the Monday Martin Luther King holiday. I went out at dawn on the 17th after the storm had passed but while it was still brisk and cold to see what the prairie looked like…
A December Ice Storm Comes
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- An Ice Storm Approaches at Nine Mile Prairie
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- Moisture Bends the Fall’s Grasses Down
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- Ice Forms Down in the Big South Draw
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- The Temperature Is Falling into the Low Twenties
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- Old Trees on the Edge of the Draw Have Toppled
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- A Recent Wind Broke the Brittle Standing Dead Ones
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- Grandmother Cottonwood Is Losing Her Limbs
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- Her Crown Is Showing the Toll of Many Winters
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- The Sky Lowers Filled with Moisture
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- An Ice Shroud Begins to Form on the Living and the Dead
A Snow Storm from February 2014
Here is a little selection of pictures
made in late February in the falling snow.
November’s Soft Light
Here is a slideshow of
a few images from November.
To see the entire collection of 155 photos click on
A Circle Around the Sun above and then on November.
