A December Ice Storm Comes

December 17, 2016 by Michael Farrell

: An Ice Storm Approaches at Nine Mile Prairie

: Moisture Bends the Fall’s Grasses Down

: Ice Forms Down in the Big South Draw

: The Temperature Is Falling into the Low Twenties

: Old Trees on the Edge of the Draw Have Toppled

: A Recent Wind Broke the Brittle Standing Dead Ones

: Grandmother Cottonwood Is Losing Her Limbs

: Her Crown Is Showing the Toll of Many Winters

: The Sky Lowers Filled with Moisture

: An Ice Shroud Begins to Form on the Living and the Dead

Try and Catch the Wind

April 8, 2016 by Michael Farrell

I spent an afternoon shooting

Wild Plum

in the Strong April Wind…

Wild Plum Blossoms Opening

March 31, 2016 by Michael Farrell

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

March 20, 2016 by Michael Farrell

On the cusp of winter turning to spring

I decided to follow the water upstream

for an afternoon visiting a few old friends.

A Snow Storm from February 2014

March 1, 2015 by Michael Farrell

Here is a little selection of pictures

made in late February in the falling snow.

Cool Wildlife Pictures from Late 2014

February 3, 2015 by Michael Farrell

Here are a few pictures

from the camera traps taken in late 2014.

The pair of bobcats is the curve setter.

Trickster Appears (with a Can of Bud Light)

December 30, 2014 by Michael Farrell

Coyote showed up on two of my game cameras that I downloaded just after Christmas…

An empty Bud Light can was left laying next to the top camera which had only taken this series and then abruptly quit…

Hoka Hey, Friend!

A Deep and Dark December

December 21, 2014 by Michael Farrell

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

November 25, 2014 by Michael Farrell

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?

After Dark…

November 4, 2014 by Michael Farrell

Three new images

from the camera traps

of creatures rare to see

at Nine Mile Prairie…

A handsome young canid,

a hard to see weasel (or mink?),

and a very buff bobcat.