EXTRAVAGANT MORNING FROZEN BRANCHES which makes for some good

which makes for some good photography

photographing any kind of sunrise was out of the question

I began photographing the wildflowers that consisted of blue vervain

A male ring-necked pheasant forages for food on this prairie landscape scene during an early spring morning at Wildflower Park

A beautiful spring sunrise illuminates this scene along the south fork Kishwaukee River as a male mallard duck swims close by

EXTRAVAGANT MORNING FROZEN BRANCHES which makes for some goodA slight breeze moves across Wildflower Lake leaving soft ripples of peace as the morning colors of the sunrise shifts from the purples and pinks to the oranges on this beautiful spring morning in Northern Illinois. (501 19)