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Cold Enough for Real Ice
Matt Barnes This seems like the coldest winter for a couple of decades. It’s so cold that we are getting real ice on the creeks, ponds and lakes. Often they might not freeze over; this year the ice is...
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Butterflies are back!
Great Spangled Fritillary, Speyeria cybele I’m happy to report that the butterflies are back. The drought two years ago really knocked them back but I’m seeing lots of them now. This is a Great...
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Monarchs are Good – Other Butterflies Missing
Monarch Butterfly on New England Aster We saw about 20 Monarch Butterflies on a walk this afternoon. Their number seem about normal for their yearly migration. Other butterflies were almost totally...
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Magic Light
Dawn Fog in the PGT Woods Last Saturday there was a light fog here at dawn at the Prairie Garden Trust. Fog can do magical things with light! Even though Jack Dodson was out shooting landscape videos...
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No Fruits and Nuts
Wild Persimon, Diospyros virginianaWild fruits and nuts are hard to find at the PGT this Fall. Could hail cause a widespread crop failure? Some of the missing wildlife foods are: Wild Persimmon (shown...
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Birding in the Rain
Rain doesn’t stop these birders. The weather did NOT cooperate for the PGT Birdwalk today. We had rain, wind and lightening. Despite the horrible conditions 6 people (serious people! crazy people?)...
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Morning Fog on Farm Pond
Potter’s Lake Walking at sunrise is a great way to beat the heat. Early morning is also the best time for magical light and for fog, like you can see here over Potter’s Lake. The Prairie Garden Trust...
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Dogwood Leaves
Dogwood Leaves The leaves on the Flowering Dogwood are starting to show some fall color. It’s still too early to say how good the color will be in our big trees, the oaks and hickories. It’s always...
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Dogwood in Snow
Dogwood in SnowFlowering Dogwoods are appealing in all seasons; even with a coating of snow. We may get more than 12-inches by the time the storm ends. Since it snows infrequently here, that’s a treat.
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Snowy Landscape
We got a few inches of snow yesterday. This shows the woods just east of the Prairie Garden Trust (PGT) visitor center. The PGT is closed during the winter but will reopen in April.
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