Autumn on a small northwest Iowa prairie remnant Bruce Morrison shares images of fall colors on his prairie remnant and explains how they approach autumn burns and seeding.

Interesting article with many beautiful fall prairie photos
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Brown bug on a white wall

Wheel big, which is a kind of assassin bug

Don't have the right equipment to capture this either visually or auditorily, but starlings starting to flock up again.

Complained about the drought yesterday and we got some rain, so this is me officially complaining about the drought again today.

She had been married to Daniel Moder for the past 22 years.

As did Julia Roberts

Officially back in drought. Blerg

Good idea

Haven't had time to bird, but I can tell migration is underway because the local ponds have more herons and egrets showing up.

Interesting tidbit from our weekly anti-Trump protest in my small, red KS town. Starting to harvest corn, so 4 grain trucks drove past us. All of them gave us long, enthusiastic honks of support.

Ordered sneezeweed seeds & the company accidentally sent me the wrong species. They quickly fixed it, but now I have 6 packets of Helenium flexuosum that I can't use because it's not native to my chunk of KS. Does anyone know of a restoration that would want them? Seeds from MO. #nativeplants

Clinton County gets a new nature preserve with conservancy donation The new Kindell Natural Area is just north of Sleepy Hollow State Park.

New savanna habitat open to the public next to Sleepy Hollow State Park in Michigan.
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Close up of yellow moth with red stripes on a white pebbled background.

Chickweed Geometer moth. Geometer means Earth measurer because their caterpillars are inchworms.

Head of Kansas’ Eisenhower library forced out over Trump demand for museum sword “They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Pr...

Interesting that Trump's corruption extends down to the tiniest corners of government. Fired a museum director who refused to illegally give Trump a sword gifted to Eisenhower.
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Large white mushroom in the grass.

Two white mushrooms in the grass.

Chlorophyllum molybdites at the park. Falling back into drought, but a spate of rain has brought out the fall fungi. My ID book says this is a common cause of poisonings because it looks like it should be yummy m

Close up of brown moth with white circle markings on a white pebbled background.

Stalk borer moth. Think maybe an ironweed borer or northern burdock borer.

Bright green frog on a white wall.

Grey treefrog with maybe not its best attempt ever of matching color with the background.

Johnson grass starting to go dormant, so time to start switching over to pulling winter creeper in wooded areas along streams. Too bad we're tipping back into drought, making the ground hard.

Do you know if any organization has had both their clubs get spooned in the same year?

#vaccines #vaccinesavelives #rfkjr #measles #publichealth

Must be some kind insect hatch because there were 5 or 6 nighthawks circling the park while I walked the dogs. At least one chimney swift, too .

Close up of black and yellow garden spider suspended from a web against a white pebbled background.

Close up of brown striped moth on a white pebbled background.

Close up of brown speckled moth on a white pebbled background.

Close up of speckled brown moth on a white pebbled background.

I'm no good at moth identification, but here are some cool ones I've seen this fall along with one thing trying to eat them.

I worry that Trump is over extending the military as I understand he is now ordering troops to Grover's Mill, NJ on reports of objects falling from the sky .

Holding penalties the only consistent #kufball defender today.

Magazine cover with cartoons of Charlie Brown, Bob Hope, the Yellow Kid, a woman pilot from the 30s, and Jiggs who is a character from an old comic strip

New issue of Hogan's Alley just arrived.

#voteblue #2026 #yourvoicematters #democracy #yourvotematters

A bee and yellow beetles on a yellow flower head.

Big, hairy bee and brown skipper butterfly on a yellow flower head.

Yellow jacket on a yellow flower head.

Variety of bugs enjoying a patch of rigid goldenrod. #nativeplants

Prairie restoration looking for help collecting seeds in the Rockford, IL - Beloit, WI area. #nativeplants

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'Landmark Restoration Effort' Concludes At Palatine's Deer Grove Forest Preserve The O'Hare Modernization Wetlands Mitigation Project restores nearly 600 acres, while also adding capacity to store more stormwater.

Cook County Forest Preserves were heaven for a nature loving kid trapped in the burbs like me.
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