FINDING BEAUTY ON THE PRAIRIE Size:16x24 METAL PRINT After hiking three miles and

After hiking three miles and coming out of the forest

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

In this case

The sun began to peek through the clouds with some color showing behind the box elder trees that line Eakin Creek West while noticing this beautiful looking cup plant (silphium perfoliatum) along the trail

FINDING BEAUTY ON THE PRAIRIE Size:16x24 METAL PRINT After hiking three miles andSometimes 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