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: Ice
What a Difference a Day Makes…
Here are two slides shows of images made on February 23 & 24, 2017. I almost never go to the prairie two days in a row and also never take the same route twice. But on these two days, waiting for a winter storm to blow in and then during the storm, I thought it would be interesting to see how the prairie changes from day to day… sometimes dramatically.
A February Love Song
Wandering down into and back out of the moist West Draw
seeking images of impermanence and renewal &
visiting an old friend, the big fallen cottonwood…
on an unseasonably warm February afternoon.
Winterlight
A crisp afternoon spent wandering around under the muted light and soft shadows of early February in the West Draw and nearby.
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 Deep and Dark December
Here is a little slideshow from five trips out to Nine Mile Prairie during December of 2014, a gray and wet month this year.
These 36 photos are set to display in random order.
To see over 100 photos from the same collection click on
“A Circle Around the Sun” above and then on the “A Deep and Dark December” link…
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.
