FINDING BEAUTY ON THE PRAIRIE Size:16x24 METAL PRINT Swamp milkweed flowers flourish in

Swamp milkweed flowers flourish in this area of the park as cumulus clouds move slowly overhead

Walking through the park on a nice relaxing summer morning while viewing the many different colors of wildflowers

I composed the Kentucky coffee tree being backlit along with the trail and snapped off a couple images

An early morning dusting of snow in Northern Illinois brings a beautiful winter scene to this prairie landscape along the South Fork Kishwaukee River with box elder trees standing precariously alongside the banks and some charismatic peachleaf willow trees off to the right at Wildflower Park

Salt Creek Falls plunges 286 feet over basalt rock into Salt Creek as an overnight snowfall continued throughout the early morning creating a majestic winter wonderland landscape in the Willamette National Forest- Oregon

FINDING BEAUTY ON THE PRAIRIE Size:16x24 METAL PRINT Swamp milkweed flowers flourish inSometimes finding a scene to photograph during the colder months of the year can be a challenge. When I am not finding that scene to photograph, I try to look for more intimate subjects and capture the details like with this common milkweed stalk (ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA) and its opened seed pods still hanging on, in which the seeds have long blown away onto the prairie. The lighting had been very good this early spring morning in Northern Illinois and I