Tag: Nine Mile Prairie

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 March Afternoon Down in the West Draw

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On a breezy March Afternoon with whispery thin High Clouds making for a Beautiful Soft Light I walked across the Prairie to the Head of the West Draw. There the Seeps and Springs were flowing even though the Winter had not been very wet. Last year’s Grasses lay like a Golden Blanket covering the wet Cleft. I followed the Water downstream North until the Sun started to sink low. Then back up a Game Trail into the Prairie and Wind…

The Chronology of a March Afternoon

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On the Second of March I entered the Prairie under scooting White Puffster Clouds tracking in from the Northwest on a brisk Breeze & punctuating the Sunshine with periods of Gray Soft Light. I crossed the East Field & around to the Mouth of the Little Spike Draw & then Upstream past Clusters of Cottonwoods to the Hidden Seep which was this Day only a bit wet & oozing. From there I climbed up & out onto the Second Field & through Golden Grasses bearing Southwest to the Park-like Copse near the Confluence of the muddy Second Draw & the freely flowing Big South Draw. Here I visited Grandfather Cottonwood & ventured to the Edge of the Wetlands to the South.  Then on the walk back to my truck in Late Afternoon Light I came upon a Tree just shy of Flowering.

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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Wild Plum Blossoms Opening

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The wild plum blossoms began opening

at Nine Mile Prairie this year

on a cloudy blustery March 30

with the smell of rain on the wind.

Enjoy this cinematic display

of spring’s aching newness…

 

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.

 

 

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…

December, Once Again

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Here is a slideshow from December, 2013.

With these I completed my “Circle Around the Sun.”

I photographed Nine Mile Prairie an average of twice a week for an entire year.

It has taken another year to edit all of the photographs

and to publish them to this website.

 

I began this project shortly after my 65th birthday. Tomorrow I will be 67.

There is more  to come…

 

 

You can see all of December, 2013’s photographs

by clicking on “A Circle Around the Sun…” above

and then on “December, Once Again.”

 

Thanks for looking…

See you at the Prairie?