Summer Quarry
I walk a hiking trail that rises as ridge by a quarry of reclaimed wetlands. The trail is a wilderness prairie with wildflowers, grasses up to my shoulders in some […]
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Summer Swamp
Nature offers an abundance of visual textures in a swamp in summer. Towering wispy plants, wildflowers and thin branched trees clump in groups in the water and along the edges. […]
Quote for the Week
“I rose from marsh mud, algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.” Lorine Niedecker, poet
Spring Shower
The path I’m on winds and twists through canopies of trees, in and out of deep woods, and to an unexpected vista of wetlands. Raindrops keep falling during a light […]
Winter Wetlands
I took this picture standing on the solid ground and looking out at wetlands marsh in winter. It looks like a frozen prairie landscape, but it’s misleading and can be […]
Where Land Meets Water
Wetlands are where land meets water. Water is life in bogs, marshes, prairie potholes, swamps and wetlands. The soggy soil, lowland is populated with fish below the surface, plants and birds above. […]
