Happy New Year! I’ve been playing with one of my favorite Christmas presents – a picture frame that sits on my desk and shows a slide show of photos. I’ve put a collection of recent farm pictures on it, and I’ve been enjoying watching them all – thinking about the year that’s gone by.
So I thought I would put up some of my favorites. Some are ones that have been on the blog in past stories, but some are new discoveries – details from photos that I’ve never used.
I’m not putting much text with the photos – just enough to identify the plant or animal, or what the place is. All except two were taken at our farm. Those two were taken on neighbors’ prairies.
Apple Blossoms
Pasqueflower seeds
Sand Cress
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Wild Ginger
Bottle Gentian
Butterfly Weed
Marsh Marigold
Cecropia Moth
Center Valley
Common Ringlet
Common False Foxglove
Fawn
Illinois Tick-trefoil
Eastern Tailed Blue
Fawn
Fritillary caterpillar
Wild Geranium
Giant Swallowtail
Gray Tree Frog
Hummingbird Moth
Katydid
Knife Edge Prairie
Leonard’s Skipper
Eastern Tailed Blue
Rough Blazing Star
Lily-leaved Twayblade
Green Twayblade
Monarch
Mushroom
Muskrat
The Narrows Prairie
Opossum
Violet Wood-sorrel
Poke Milkweed
Polyphemus caterpillar
Polyphemus Moth
Praag Valley
Mushrooms
Our house
Sky-blue Aster
Fox kits
Giant St. John’s Wort
Stiff Gentian
Tawny Emperor
Blue Vervain
Pat’s Prairie
Tiger Swallowtail
Wild Clematis
3 Finger Valley
Woodchuck
Field Milkwort
Wetland at sunrise