Showing posts with label ice on the tallgrass prairie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice on the tallgrass prairie. Show all posts

Monday, February 21, 2022

Saturday On the Tallgrass Prairie - February 19, 2022

Saturday was a beautiful day in southwest Missouri! The sun fairly gleamed as it's light spilled out over the frozen prairie landscape.

The creek sang merrily as it made its way across the low-water bridge, moving along to bigger things downstream.

There was evidence of beavers hard at work along it's edges. The following two photographs were actually taken the Monday before...


I had bison on the way in to work Saturday morning and bison on the way home that night. I even had bison in the middle between opening and closing!

There were bison on the west side of the park on my way in to work that morning...

"Betcha can't see me now!"

...bison came past the nature center around 10:30 a.m...


Looking Through the Diorama and Out the East 
Window of the Nature Center

...and, then, I saw bison on the south end of the park on my way home...


It was great!!! It's been twenty-six years since first discovering the bison at Prairie State Park, going on eight years of working with them, and I never ever get tired of seeing them!

Until next time...
~Rebecca

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Sunday, January 15, 2017

January Ice

This morning we experienced an ice storm here in southwest Missouri. It certainly wasn't the worst ice storm that we have ever experienced. In fact, it was probably the least destructive ice storm that I can remember and that's because, thankfully, it didn't last long. Temperatures were already warming up and most of the ice had melted by the time I took these photos at Prairie State Park, but, still, I thought the photos worth sharing.

Prairie Grasses Under Ice

The Bison Fence On Sandstone - It Reminds Me Of An Ice-Trimmed Picture Window

An Icy Directional Sign

Sandstone Trailhead Sign Encased In Ice

Hunkah Prairie - Path of the Earth People

Tallgrass Prairie Under Ice

Delicate Grasses Enshrouded In Ice


Last Year's Thistle Encapsulated in Ice

Another Ice Encapsulated Thistle


Even The Bison Chips Were Ice-Capped