September 27 Dawn

Fiery Sunrise Across the Bunkers

Clutch of Turkey Eggs Destroyed by a Predator

Lavender Dawn Light at the Edge of the West Draw

Sun Peeking Through Clouds and Sumac

Sun Rays Through Clouds Past Sumac

Glacial Erratic with Rainbow

A Bump of Sumac Gone Red

Glory Cloud

Sumac Bump Gone Red Under a Lead Sky

Sunflower Seed Head Barely Hanging On

Starlike Husks

End of Season Grasses Backlit

Fallen Trees Embrace

Up a Corkscrew Trunk

Robins Flocking

Squirrel Chewed Walnut in a Crotch

Magenta Button Mushrooms on a Down Tree

Past a Leaning Sapling into a Clearing

Backlit Grape Leaves

Four Freshly Fallen Walnuts

Red Berries Growing at the Cottonwood Bark Pile

Red Berries CU

End of Season Grasses Falling Over in the Draw

White Mushrom with Curved Stem

Downy Gentian Near the West Gate

Moon Over a Pair of Bluebird Boxes at Dawn

Just at Daybreak on the East Fence Oct 1

From the East Fence to the Capitol at Daybreak

Golden Grass Heads Backlit

Goldenrod Plant Gone to Seed

On the Path a Lone Flower Greets the Sun

Translucent Milkweed Husk

Five Slender Milkweed Husks

Brilliant Red Sumac Against Dark Green

Pitcher’s Sage Fleurs

Heath Aster (?) Fleurs

Tridentine Trunk Still Standing Barely

Yellowed Leaf Crumpled at the Edges

Stump Thing…

Woodpecker Worked Tree

A Tree Gone Yellow at the Edge of the Draw

Past Some Dogwood into a Little Clearing

Dead Tree Diagonal

In Sunlight and In Shadow

Big Flocks of Blackbirds on the Move

Across the Head of the South Draw to the Bunkers

Soybeans to the South

Sunlight Poking Into the Swoop Tree Place

The Hollow Side of the Swoop Tree

A Classic Swoop Tree Frame with Yellow Leaves

The Old Hay Machine Wheel

Slender Milkweed Husks with Seeds Still Letting Go

Where the Big Fence Turns

A Ragged Sulphur Wing Butterfly

Doesn’t Look Promising This Mornng

Strong Wind…

Greens Going Gold

Greens Going Gold – One Branch

Sumac, Dogwood and Little Yellow Leaves

Under an Old Conifer Not Much Grows

Lone Red Sumac Against Juniper

Chartreuse Against Forest Green

Crepuscular Light with Greens, Golds and a Bit of Red

Tracery Against a Roiling Sky

The Sky Was Dark and Foreboding

Dead Branch Tangle

At the Edge

A Little Glowing Patch of Dogwood

The Powerlines Under a Stormy Sky

Plum Bush Going

Wild Grape Leaf at the End of the Line

Plums Rotting on the Bush

Virginia Creeper Vine and Berries

Little Stand of Sumac at the Head of the Big South Draw Under a Threatening Sky

Psychedelic Sumac Head and Leaves

Grass Seed Head

Leaves Turning at the Seep WS

Leaves Turning at the Seep CU

Solo Plum

Spiky Seed Pod with Viny Tendrils

Crabapple Tree Turned Gold

A Little Bright Spot in the Draw

Upstream at the Five Sisters

Curve Trunk Cottonwood Up the Little Draw

A Late Flowering Goldenrod

Backlit Grasses Going Gold

Gold Grass Spritz

Orange Sulphur Wing Butterfly

Breezy Dawn on the Far Western Hill

Across the Fence to Corn Land

Across the Fence to the West – Cutting Corn Before Dawn

Fiery Dawn

Milkweed Pods Dispersing Seeds at Dawn

Wide Shot from the Far Western Hill to the Northeast at Dawn

A Field of Russet Grasses

Still Pretty Lush Down in the Bottoms

Near the Head of the West Draw

In the Tangly Undergrowth of the West Draw

Looking Up and Out Near the Head of the West Draw

Still Life with Last Year’s Walnut Shell Half

Still Life with Last Year’s Deer Jaw

As the Twig Is Bent…

Hard Going in the West Draw Ce Matin

What Becomes of the…

What Becomes of the… #2

Virginia Creeper Leaves Gone Purple

Backlit Virginia Creeper Leaves Gone Rust

Virginia Creeper Vine & Leaves Gone Red

One Last Berry

Dogwood Leaves Must Pass

Orange Mystery Fruits CU

Walnuts Galore This Year

Walnuts Galore This Year MS

Walnuts on the Ground

Looking West from the Edge of the West Draw

A Late Blooming Mullein

Two Walnuts and a Few Leaves

A Chaotic Mix on the Far West Hillside Getting on Towards Noon…

Showy Partridge Pea Blooming

Near the Head of the First Draw

At the Head of the First Draw

Early Morning Light Strikes a Yellow Tree – From the Head of the First Draw

A Curtain of Little Leaves in Various Colors

Here Comes the Sun…

Where Have All the Flowers Gone…

I’ll Bet Hans Hoffman Would Like These Colors…

Sun Peeking Through Back in the Bush

One Leaf & One Sun

One Sun Upshot with Bisecting Vine

One Sun Illuminates the Floor of the Draw

Big Down Trunk Slowly Going Back to Earth, with Mushrooms

Fungus Doing Its Job #1

Fungus Doing Its Job #2

Fungus Doing Its Job #3

Green Mossy Slime Starts the Process

Hard To Go Place

Three Poles Composition in Soft Light

Half Bark

Twisty Trunk with Burn Scabs

Umbrella Shaped Fungus on a Dying Cottonwood Trunk

The Underside of the Umbrella Shaped Fungus

Magnificent Roots on That Split Trunk Cottonwood

Cottonwood Echoes in the Little Draw

The Hollow Root with Fall Colors

Leathery Orange Mushroom on Cottonwood Bole

Sunflower Stalks Against a Cloudy October Sky

Kill Site – Mandibles and Fur

Kill Site – Vertebrae and Fur

Field Painting with Grass 2

Field Painting with Grass 1

Researcher’s Plot in Concrete

The East Fenceline Tree Clump at Dawn

Three Goldenrod Stalks Against a Pre-dawn Sky

Fuzzy Seed Tops in Pre-dawn Light

Don’t the Moon Look Good…

Long Lens Fall Color Spritz at Dawn

First Light on Milkweed Leaves and Husks

Shriveled Sumac Leaves

Kissed by Frost with Little Light Shaft

Grass Seeds – Still Clinging

Frosted Sage 1

Frosted Sage 2

Frosted Sage 3

Grass Fronds Tickled By Light

Early Morning Frost Starting to Melt

Not Quite a Hard Frost

Wispy Gaura Stalks Silhouetted

Edgelit Gaura Stalk

The Path Above the Second Draw

Through a Gap Across the Second Draw

Three Strong Trees of the Second Draw

Leaves Turning Between the Trees

Cottonwood Rhythm – Trunk and Leaves

Three Trunk Window to Fall Leaves

Bare Cottonwood Twigs Hanging Down

Bricolage of Light and Dark

Sunflower Stalks Against a Bald Blue Sky

Backlit Oak Leaf

Along the Edge of the Little Draw

Down Bole with Knot

At the Five Sisters

Elm Leaves Backlit

Hedge Apple on the Ground

Juniper Berries

At a Military Gate

Last Yellow Leaves on Stalks

Into the Bushes – Dense Pinks and Yellows

On the Edge of the Little Northwest Draw

Bare Brush Against the Sky

Old Nest with Fallen Leaves

Three Trunk Tree with Backlit Grasses – NW Draw

The Power Spot in the Northwest Draw

Blackbirds Moving Through 1

Blackbirds Moving Through 2

Dried Thistle Heads Dispersing

Grass Leaf Goldenrod (?) Flowering Late

Seeded Out Plants Against a Threatening Sky

Yellow Flowers Punctuate a Field

A Field of Fluffy Goldenrod Heads with Threatening Skies

Milkweed Pod and Seedless Fluff

Milkweed Pods and Seedy Fluff

Two Milkweed Pods Open

Trunk Losing Bark

Upright Snag

Creeper Vine with Red Leaves

White Fungus on a Dead Tree

Big Storm Rolling In

Pre-storm Light at the West Fenceline

Dramatic Clouds from the West Gate

The Road Out from the West Gate

Pre-dawn Sumac Heads and Grass

Pre-dawn Stand of Yellow Trees

Dawn Through Dried Sunflower Heads

First Sun Through a Sumac Stand

Trees in the First Draw Coming On Gold

Fuzzy Top Goldenrod Seed Heads Rimlit

Fuzzy Tops of Goldenrod Rimlit WS

Little Patch of Bunch Grass Lit Up

Cottonwood Leaves Gone Gold Against an October Sky 1

Cottonwood Leaves Going Gold Against an October Sky 2

Barb Wire Roll in the Little Draw

Two Cottonwood Stalwarts

Deer Jaw with Cottonwood Leaves

Those Quizzical Orange Fruits Again

Fall at the Wet Spot – CU

Fall at the Wet Spot – Down Shot

Fall at the Wet Spot – Wide Shot

Spiky Seed Pod – Now Broken Open

Hemlock Seed Heads

Solo Spotted Leaf

Dead Trunk, Bark Going, One Leaf

Backlit White Fuzzies Through the Trees

Red Berries Buck Brush Branch

Locust Bean Pods

High on a Locust Tree

Grandmother Cottonwood Amid the Youngsters

Grandmother Cottonwood – Fall Portrait

All But Gone, October 31

Grass and Sage in the Sumac Twigs

Grass, Sumac, Draw & Sky – Before Dawn

On Death & Dying – Before Dawn, October 31

Little White Fuzzy Seed Heads

Super Nova…

Frost Nipped Goldenrod Clump

A Symphony in Russet Tones

Prairie Pea Pods

A Blast of Bittersweet – WS

A Blast of Bittersweet – CU

Bare White Branches in a Gully on a Hillside

Lone Bush Against a Rugged Sky

Sunflower Stalk Silhouette

Corot-like Composition with Illuminated Foreground

The Patch of Grass at the Head of Draw Two’s West Trail

Almost Nothing…

Now I Lay Me Down…

Loner on the Ground…

Tonsure

Twin Stars

Deux Etoiles

Scattered White Puffsters

Ash Tree Seed Pods

Buckbrush – An Arc of Little Red Berries

Glacial Erratic on a Dutch Angle Shot

Evidence of a Tryst

Tryster Smokes Pyramids…

A Big Root Tangle with One Golden Leaf