Tag: Winter

A Light Snow Day

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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…

A February Love Song

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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.

After the January 2017 Ice Storm

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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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The Ides of March – 2016

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On the cusp of winter turning to spring

I decided to follow the water upstream

for an afternoon visiting a few old friends.

 

 

Cool Wildlife Pictures from Late 2014

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Here are a few pictures

from the camera traps taken in late 2014.

The pair of bobcats is the curve setter.

 

 

 

 

 

A Deep and Dark December

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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…