Monday, July 2, 2018

Egads - July!!!

Behind on my blog posts - the Prairie Pasture out in front of the studio has been drop dead gorgeous the past couple weeks...even though the rains have been overly plentiful and troublesome to many in the area - the prairie pasture loved every drop! 

There has been a great deal of flooding these past weeks and many crops have drown, towns flooded and even a derailment in a flooded river valley 45 minutes northwest of us of a train pulling heavy crude from the fracking areas of the north.  If there were more prairies and less cropping of every nook, cranny and fence line imaginable - there would be less flooding, run-off and erosion of our precious soils. 

Here's a few photos, drawings and paintings of the many plants blooming here in our pastures right now!

 Wild Bergamot (monarda fistulosa) 
photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison

 Echinacea angustifolia and Prairie Coreopsis (Coreopsis palmata)
photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison

 Hoary Vervain - (Verbena stricta) 
photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison

 Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) 
photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison

 Canada Milkvetch (Astragalus canadensis)
color pencil drawing - © Bruce A. Morrison

 Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
 photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison

 Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum) 
oil painting - © Bruce A. Morrison

 False Gromwell (Onosmodium molle) and Prairie Phlox (Phlox pilosa) 
color pencil drawing - © Bruce A. Morrison

 Heliopsis helianthoides with Orange Sulphur butterfly and Soldier beetle
photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison

 Heliopsis helianthoides
photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison

 Lead Plant (Amorpha canescens)
photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison

 Monarch caterpillar feeding on Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) 
photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison

 Showy Tick Trefoil (Desmodium canadense)
color pencil drawing - © Bruce A. Morrison

Wild Four O'clock (Mirabillis nyctaginea)
photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison

Enjoy the summer - as things change real fast out on the prairie; they'll be something different blooming tomorrow for sure
 

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