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Jul 01
Posted: under Plantlife, Water, Wildlife, photography.
Tags: Animal behavior, beauty, dragonfly, insect, observation, odonates, photography July 1st, 2010
When I went out yesterday about noon, I found four of these lovely pink waterlily flowers open:
May 24
Posted: under Activities, Climate Change, Water, Wildlife.
Tags: Activities, amphibians, Animal behavior, beauty, documentation, observation, photography, wildlife management May 24th, 2010
Young Rana berlandieri with last of its tail showing.
Feb 11
Posted: under Plantlife, Water, Weather, Wildlife, photography.
Tags: beauty, native plants, natural water, observation, photography, rain, seasons, Weather February 11th, 2010
Feb 10
Posted: under Land, Plantlife, Water.
Tags: beauty, native plants, natural water, photography February 10th, 2010
The upstream part of the dry woods swale, with water seeping through the grass on both sides. This area produces the best water quality, as most of the water has seeped through both rock and soil. Read the rest of this entry »
Feb 05
Posted: under Plantlife, Water, photography.
Tags: beauty, native plants, natural water, observation, photography February 5th, 2010
At the end an hour slogging around a very wet, running-water-wet field as the sun gets low, you might wonder why you didn’t go back before now. Then you look down and there it is…the first one this spring. The sheer audacity of it–that determined stem, those leaves reaching for sunlight, and then that fragile, pale pink flower.
Jan 17
Posted: under Activities, Land, Plantlife, Water, Wildlife.
Tags: Activities, beauty, butterflies, census, new species, photography, Weather January 17th, 2010
We’d had some sprinkles, but the first real rain came Thursday & Friday, about two inches, and set the secondary drainage flowing across the near meadow again. Creek was up and a little turbid, but the flow in the grass was crystal clear. Today, I finally photographed a common (supposedly) species of butterfly around here, which I’d never been able to catch in the lens.
Dec 10
Posted: under Activities, Water, Weather.
Tags: Activities, natural water, photography December 10th, 2009
Every day brings changes to the land–the seasonal changes being among the most obvious–but from year to year we see changes–both desired and undesired–as a result of what we, our neighbors, and the weather do.
Nov 12
Posted: under Activities, Water, Wildlife, photography.
Tags: Activities, beauty, butterflies, native plants, photography, water resource management November 12th, 2009
Two years of drought followed by heavy rains in a warm fall has produced bursts of spring flowering and some spring butterflies even as it’s produced sudden fall color…a very odd combination.
Nov 10
Posted: under Plantlife, Water, photography.
Tags: butterflies, native plants, odonates, photography, prairie restoration, water resource management November 10th, 2009
We have no permanent natural water on the place. But when it does rain, we have a variety of temporary water sources, from the actual creek to the various overflow channels (some of concern because of erosion; others now pretty much “tamed.”)
Oct 22
Posted: under Water, Weather.
Tags: beauty, photography, rain, Weather October 22nd, 2009
Last night we got another three inches of rain.
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