Two weeks ago I read from my Oklahoma memoir at the Iowa Prairie Conference, along with John Price, Mary Swander, and Elizabeth Dodd (what fun people and great writers!). I was able to tour plantings the Tallgrass Prairie Center is working on at the UNI campus, as well as their production plots and cool seed cleaning room. Then I visited my folks in Minnesota and their 2-3 acres of prairie restoration -- following is some of what I found in the land of 14,000 lakes (for more, follow me on
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| Monarda, Verbena, Ratibida, Bluestem |
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| Ironweed |
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| Grey-Headed Coneflower |
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| The sunsets were pretty good. |
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| How many monarchs do you see? |
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| Sweet joe pye weed. |
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| Oh, those sunsets. And my entry for Gardening Gone Wild Picture This Photo Contest (October 2015) |
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| Did I mention the sunsets? |
1 comment:
Very nice photos! Thank you.
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