Wildflowers & Wild Plants

Young brown angus calf sucking on bottle of milk

Leila

Spring calf Leila nurses on fresh made formula. In a couple of years she will be feeding her own young.

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We’re innocent!

It wasn’t me! It was his fault! All three of them just sitting there looking the other way. None of them copping on the truth. Thirty minutes earlier, we were out hiking when I stopped to snap a photo. That’s when I heard Bandit barking for his siblings, “Let’s chase the cat!” I know that

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Cottonwood trees loosing their cotton

Dentist, Cicada and Me

I looked like a mess. My shirt was thoroughly wrinkled, and my hair stuck out in every direction, but I went out the door looking like this anyway. My 4×4 TrailBlazer, well, that, too, needed to be washed. Several inches of mud coated the inside of its wheel wells, the side panels, and the inner

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Ponderosa Pine and Nebraska Prairie

Life on The Edge

I live on The Edge.  My home is on the edge —where the prairie meets the forest. Here, the Sandhills border farmlands. Wildlife and domestic cross along the same game trails. I climb to the top of the sandstone buttes behind my home. There, I can see far to the north, more than 50 miles,

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