This is an especial bummer since Shakopee shares water with Burnsville so that they do not kill Savage Fen’s aquifer.

My first blossom of the year in my prairie garden planted last year.
Pasque flower (Anemone patens) #mnnativeplants

The upholstery held up better than the chassis.

For those that didn’t already know me, I LOVE photographing snowflakes. The winter wasn’t quite finished yet.

Is it spring yet? I am still waiting for the eastern leatherwoods to bud out.

The green wave of foliage and flowers is coming soon to Minnesota. I can’t wait!

I’m surprised how easy it was to start wild ferns from spores.

Low intensity fire is a critical process in many Midwestern ecosystems. Let’s bring it back.

The individual florets are pretty neat on their own.

I was there

Hello from Minnesota!

Mewild Things conference 2025, Chicago Illinois

I had those dates wrong. 2007 or ‘08.

I think this is from ‘97 or ‘98. All from local ecotype seed.

Culver’s root and Michigan lilies in a restored prairie.

Living in the north, I have been growing one in a pot for many years just so that I get the blooms every summer.

I spent the nice cold weather this week burning these brush piles

Just a snowflake

Yes, the color is real

Attending the Prairie Enthusiasts 2025 virtual conference this week. Many great programs and reminders of why we work so hard to protect our natural heritage in the Midwest.
#mnnativeplants #nativeplants #ReatoringMinnesota

Wild geranium was in bloom. There are quite a few species in there.

I’m looking forward to seed collection season so that I can help barren buckthorn woods look more lush and diverse.
#mnnativeplants #restoringminnesota

Carex meadii is a very widespread, if understated sedge of the tallgrass prairies. Widespreading and shorter than the surrounding grasses, it is easy to miss.
#mnnativeplants

I used to read the books about houseplants from the library. It was much slower paced than today’s influencer culture.

Shadow Falls in St Paul from one of the cold snaps in December.

Generally I like embarrassing, but in some cases the subject is immune.
I’m like it the Cicuta soup idea though.

I have a relative who lives in a geodesic dome house. I won’t say it is a masterpiece of spatial efficiency, but it is definitely an architectural icon.

Scrolling through my pictures, and found this juxtaposition between native prairie and suburban sprawl.
You have to wonder if the people knew what wonders were bulldozed to make room for their drug dependent rugs of a lawn.

Amazing!