[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Hidden Oaks Point page.]

2/23/2008  The bottom of the point, with the prairie slope emerging into the sun

 

5/18/2008  The slope below the prairie

 

5/22/2008  Blue-eyed Grass and Hoary Puccoon on the prairie

 

5/24/2008  The top of the point with Hoary Puccoon blooming and several small Burr Oaks

 

5/29/2008  Farther down on the point with newly girdled birches

 

5/29/2008   Looking down the point from the top

 

6/4/2008   This is the hollow where the Robin’s Plantain grows.

 

6/4/2008  Robin’s Plantain

 

9/5/2008  View from the point

 

9/5/2008  Gray Goldenrod on the point

 

9/7/2008  Green Milkweed (Asclepias viridiflora)

 

9/7/2008  This is the west slope of the prairie, an area that I’m working on clearing since it has prairie plants growing under all the brush and trees.

 

9/7/2008  The same view after a session of brush clearing – Rough Blazing Star blooming

 

9/12/2008  Another part of the same hillside, before clearing

 

9/12/2008  The same view after clearing

 

9/7/2008   Looking toward the point

 

11/1/2008   Looking down the point into 3 Finger Valley

 

12/19/2008  The prairie with the view

 

12/19/2008  The path through the savanna

 

12/19/2008  The point