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A lone prairie marmot stands on its hind legs to eat next to its burrow.
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an action close -up of great western prairie tank 5199 near glyndyfrdwy with a santa special
picture by my wife
One sees a lot of abandoned ranch buildings in South Dakota. The red building was a granary, and the collapsed wall in the foreground belonged to an airplane hangar. The distances are so vast that a previous owner had his own plane and landing strip.
Người ta thấy rất nhiều tòa nhà trang trại bị bỏ rơi ở Nam Dakota. Tòa nhà màu đỏ là một vựa lúa, và các bức tường sụp đổ ở phía trước thuộc về một nhà chứa máy bay. Các khoảng cách này là quá rộng lớn mà một người chủ trước đó đã có máy bay và hạ cánh vũ thoát y.
A former pastor of the Hogeland American Lutheran Church says a prayer at the 100th anniversary of the church in small town of Hogeland, Montana.
This photo was taken while on assignment for 'Montana Magazine'.
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Vibank is a pretty non-descript little village with nothing much going on. But at least there was some exercise.
Vibank, Saskatchewan
During a recent visit with relatives in Lubbock, Texas, we went looking for Prairie Dogs. These are prominent in vacant fields and lots in Texas. People were tossing them carrot chunks.
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Overcast day.
Purple Prairie Verbena
Glandularia bipinnatifida
Glandularia bipinnatifida (Nutt.) Nutt.
Prairie Verbena, Purple Prairie Verbena, Dakota Vervain, Dakota Mock Vervain, Moradilla, Alfombrilla
Verbenaceae (Verbena Family)
Synonym(s):
USDA Symbol: glbi2
USDA Native Status: L48 (N), PR (N)
Gently rounded clusters of bilaterally symmetrical pink, lavender, or purple flowers bloom atop stems with highly divided leaves. The Spanish name, Moradilla, comes from morado (“purple”) and means “little purple one.” This plant often forms brilliant displays of pink or light purple, covering acres of ground. It is a variable complex, with some plants tall and pink-flowered, others more matted and with lavender or purple flowers; the two forms are usually found in separate areas. The genus Glandularia is closely related to Verbena, differing conspicuously in its round-topped clusters of showy flowers; in some references, this species is listed as Verbena ambrosifolia.
This species is a member of the verbena family (family Verbenaceae), which includes about 75 genera and 3,000 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees, mostly of tropical and warm temperate regions. Among them, teak is a highly prized furniture wood, and Vervain, Lantana, Lippia or Frog Fruit are grown as ornamentals.
Kennesaw Mountain. 8/1/2015.
This species is not a breeder at this location and is an early migrant heading south. First fall (meaning born this spring) birds of this species have a split white eye ring so they are easy to sort out from the adults. This young bird also still has plenty of gray in the head/face.
A prairie kiss shares an intimate moment with Black-tailed Prairie Dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). Image taken in a vacant plot of land in the middle of Parker, Colorado.
Illinois Prairie Path ~ Winfield, Illinois
Olympus E-500, Olympus 18-180, ISO 100, f/5.6, 55mm, 1/125s
Vinton County, Ohio | April | Canon 1D4 | Canon 600mm f4 IS |
From the Lake Hope trip last weekend. Again - got much tighter shots but loved the space, composition, and colors in this one.
This all alone, unused on the wide open prairie of northwesrn South Dakota.
Image edited with google-NIK snapsead for iPad.
Perched on dogfennel at the Sparrow Field.
77 degrees, cloudy with occasional light drizzle.
Skidaway Island, Chatham County, GA
An oil well (or is it natural gas?) in the Colorado prairie near the Denver International Airport (DIA). I took this on the way to the airport -- going to the cheap remote parking. You can see the Rocky Mountains in the far background.
These pumps go by many names. According to Wikipedia they are called a "pumpjack, oil horse, oil jack, donkey pumper, nodding donkey, pumping unit, horsehead pump, rocking horse, beam pump, dinosaur, grasshopper pump, Big Texan, thirsty bird, cricket, or jack pump."
One last set of Prairie Falcon shots unless I get something really special. Because of the property restrictions around the Alberta Government Terminal, it is impossible to get close to the action. Even so, it is a lot of fun to watch.
According to the Atlas of Breeding Birds of Alberta, The Prairie Falcon is a bird of the dry open country. In Alberta it is found in the vicinity of canyons and coulees of the badlands, or above the cliffs of southern river valleys where it hunts in the adjacent grasslands.
The Prairie Falcon is as large as the Peregrine Falcon, but is much paler in colour. Its favorite prey is ground squirrels, mice, insects and birds. It may hunt from a perch or from low level flight where it flushes prey close up, or it may make a rapid vertical swoop. Most prey is taken from the ground.
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This is the tenth year I've been taking photowalks in Chisholm Creek Park, so I was delighted to discover a small stand of prairie larkspur, a new species for my prairie wildflower species collection. This is the 165th wildflower species I've photographed in the park. You just never know what you might see on a photowalk.....
Taken at Columbia Bottoms Preservation Area
Seriously, when you're in a lowland (this is right by the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers) the sky...is...so...big.