I’m already lacking my sq. meter plot and that entire mission, however I’m soldiering on and discovering different enjoyable photographic alternatives. It’s been enjoyable to observe the rising season bounce into full velocity, regardless of actually dry situations. We’ve gotten some good rain throughout a lot of the state this final week or so, however a lot of the state remains to be in drought situations. It’s an excellent factor prairies are so resilient!
Listed here are a couple of of my favourite images from the previous couple of weeks.
The primary a number of images beneath had been taken inside my 2025 photograph mission space at my household prairie. Pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta) was going to seed earlier this month and I spent a part of a nice morning admiring the interaction between the sunshine and people fuzzy seedheads.
The remainder of these images had been taken at The Nature Conservancy’s Platte River Prairies. The primary two come from a wetland restoration effort I led a few years in the past. We transformed a sandpit lake (from sand and gravel dredging) to a shallow wetland with backwater wetlands and a meandering stream. It’s nonetheless probably the most gratifying initiatives I’ve labored on, regardless of a continuing circulation of invasive vegetation coming in from upstream.
Because the solar dropped into haze-filled horizon one night, I performed round with numerous topics to place in entrance of that solar. Listed here are two of my favorites.
I believe all of our migratory grassland birds have arrived again in our Platte River Prairies. At the least some dragonflies appear to be right here, and I’ve heard persons are beginning to see monarchs in japanese Nebraska, although I’ve not seen my first but. Temperatures are rising and summer time is on the way in which!
