Prairies

172 images

This gallery features images of the plains in all four seasons, from grassland flora and fauna to sweeping countryside vistas.

After the Ice Storm
Amish Laundry
Beaumonts Pride
Big Blue Late Afternoon
Blue Sage and Bluestem
Bluestem Stone
Bobwhite Post
Boothill Cloud
Bouncing Fence Line
Brad's Road
Bug & Purple Flower
Burr Oak Rain
Burr Oak, Crops and G..sses
Butterfly Aster Slope
Butterfly Blossom Stages
Butterfly Moth
Canada Wild Rye Dew
Canada Wild Rye Switch
Cardinal Berries
Cheyenne Corner Sunset
Clapboard Hill Fence
Clapboard Hill Oaks
Clapboard Hill Storm
Clapboard Hill Thunde..head
Clearing Summer Storm
Cloud Road
Colorado Grasses
Compass Plant
Coneflower Cones
Coneflower Dreamscape
Coneflower Storm
Cottonwood Curves
Cottonwood Fire Line
Dawn Over The Olympics
Dawn Tree
Dawn's Road
East Prairie First Frost
East Prairie Treeline..Dawn
East Ridge Tapestries
Fall Flinthills Aerial
Fence Road and Thunde..head
Fence, Wheat, Flowers..torm
Fire Arc
Fire Blues
Fire Glow Ridge
Fire Line
Fire Pond Moonlight
Fire Road Twilight
Flinthills After the Burn
Flinthills Backbone S..rise
Flinthills Barn View
Flinthills Forest Sunset
$Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas Some of the most beautiful days I have spent outdoors are on prairies the day after an ice storm. Usually the sun comes out and shines on rolling fields of crystals reflecting the sun's rays. Ice storms occur when a warm air mass migrates in between two layers of cold air. The liquid precipitation condenses, and falls as rain or sleet, and then falls into the cold air mass at ground level. The objects on the ground are supercooled and when the rain falls on those objects, the precipitation instantly freezes. Despite their beauty, ice storms can be insidiously dangerous. Aside from hazardous travel, the ice laden trees become so heavy that limbs can fracture and fall without warning. The falling limbs can take out power lines that subsequently land on homes, start fires, or the limbs can catch an onlooker by surprise and cause serious injury or death. One tree that is particularly strong and can carry massive weight on its limbs is the Burr Oak tree, one of the icons of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem.$

Flinthills Icy Sunrise
Flinthills Pond
Flinthills Rock Fence..torm
Flinthills Sheep
Floating Shadows
Flowers from Night
Fork in the Road
Four Ocean Echoes
Frost to Warmth
Frosted Grass Bundles
Furry Leaf Patterns
Gone to Seed
Graceful Stems
Grass Colors
Grass Colors and Dew
Grass Trilogy
Ground Dogwood Archit..ture
Guide Through the Storm
Gwen's Watch
Harvest Shadows
Heathman Rock Fence
Hill Fire Line and Tree
Hill Silhouette
Hillside Twilight
Ice Window
Iced Little Bluestem
Idaho Porch
K for Konza
K99 Rock Fence
Kaw Riparian
Kestrel
Konza Cottonwood Valley
Konza Fall Color Radiance
Konza Fall Curves
Konza Hillsides
Konza Limestone Outcrop
Konza Patterns
Konza Pre White Man
Konza Road to the Sky
Konza Winter Clouds
Konza Winter Stepstones
Kool Aid Chairs
Leadplant
Locust Fire
Lodge Glade
Milkweed Mountain
Mintleaf Beabalm
Morning Shadow Clouds