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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