I finally took some photos of the main view of the farm – the one you see from the road. It’s too wide to take with one photo so I combined three photos into a panorama.

This weekend Emmet Judziewicz from the botany department at UW Stevens Point came to visit with two of his students. They were interested in seeing our bluff prairies and collecting plants for the herbarium. It was great fun – they loved the prairies and the scenery, and they collected lots of plants.

This entry is mostly pictures – there are so many flowers blooming right now and I can’t resist taking pictures of all of them.

I listened to the Woodcocks dancing again one night. There were at least 3 or 4 in Center Valley.

This has been another amazingly warm month.   We’ve only had two small snowstorms.   The mornings have been frosty, but the afternoons are mostly warm and snow-free.

The air is starting to feel like winter,  and today we’re having our first snowstorm.

The past month has been hot and very dry. We had a lot of early summer flowers at the beginning of June, but now the plants are slowing down, waiting for rain.

It’s been a cold and snowy winter so far.

September is our transition from summer to fall, bringing cooler temperatures, shorter days, and the sun lower in the sky.  This week we had our first frosty nights.