Thursday, March 29, 2012

Prairie Tour

Earlier this week I visited the 8000-acre Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge near Prairie City, Iowa.

Mar 26 & 27 Pella (62)

Mar 26 & 27 Pella (73)

There I found some leftover autumn color:

Mar 26 & 27 Pella (66)  A herd of buffalo:

Mar 26 & 27 Pella (64) And, a visitor center to tour:

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I hope to return in the summer when the prairie flowers are blooming.

6 comments:

Gail said...

I enjoy natural. I wish there were more places like this.

Meggie said...

My pastures look like this with the native grass....minus the buffalos.

Ms. Becky said...

I love scrolling through your posts, looking at your photos. They each one offer a peek into your special world. The diamond droplet on the spirea leaf is amazing - the shape of it. I agree with your daughter about the Fire photo. It's furious! Sepia Fog is a fave too - I can hear the stillness. You pull at my heartstrings when you write about doing calf chores - bringing back memories of my own childhood growing up on a dairy farm. What a fabulous life you lead. I know it's a whole lot of hard work, but there's truly no better life that living on a farm. The glow on the grain bins says it all. I think you should enlarge the first shot of the Prairie too - it's gorgeous. I'm a sucker for photos of grasses and that one soars. Happy day to you Jeanelle.

Anonymous said...

I can hardly wait to see the beautiful pictures you get there this summer when there is a lot of color.

Ruth Hiebert said...

I bet this place is buzzing with life in summer time and oh the flowers must be spectacular.

Rose said...

I bet you could see some awesome sunsets and sunrises there!