Red Oak

Some much needed snow fell today, the red oak is beautiful!

Red Ochre

Combining archival photos with new and found footage, Red Ochre is a personal, impressionistic rendering of what it's like growing up Mi'kmaq in Newfoundland, while living in a culture of denial.

Summer Legend

Summer Legend by Françoise Hartmann, National Film Board of Canada

Summer Legend Françoise Hartmann 1986 This animated short retells the Mi’gmaq legend of the great spirit Glooscap, who in the cold white dawn of the world, battled with the giant Winter in order to bring Summer to the North.

Inspiration

Am looking forward to spring this year!

Taken north of Ames, sometime early summer 2009.

Oak

The oaks are turning color slower than normal this year, drought related I'm sure, but finally they are turning! 

Just over the Horizon

Is a John Deere Combine!  I love the lines left behind after the crops have been harvested.

 

A herd of wild corn bails wander a field in Story County, Iowa. Approach with caution, they can be quite dangerous when spooked, rolling here and there with no particular destination in mind!

 

 

Deer at the Prairie

Neil Smith Wildlife Refuge, Prairie City, Iowa.

The Marsh is Green!

Well after it dried up it rained, but not enough to fill the marsh again, now it's filled with vegetation most of it appears to be fox tail.

Bjorkboda marsh all greened up, can't wait for the rains to fill it again.

More Wind Damage

Bjorkboda Marsh - Cottonwoods

Wind Damage at the Marsh

Lots of trees down at the marsh, we had some storms rip through here last week with high winds. 

One of the younger trees also came down in the wind storm.

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The plants were about three to four feet tall.

Brown-eyed Susan

Rudbeckia hirta

Tall or Giant Sunflower

Helianthus giganteus

Partridge Pea???

Egret

This one was acting pretty confused, hanging out in the middle of the road for several minutes before finally flying off.

Bjorkboda Marsh - 080912

The marsh is now dried up, the grass has greened up after this past weeks rains, am  hoping the birds return and soon.

Swamp Milkweed

Swamp Milkweed or Asclepias incarnata

Trumpeter Swans

The trumpeter swans have moved from the marsh over to the USDA pond, which doesn't have near enough water.

Drought at the Marsh

This is the lowest I've ever seen the marsh before.