PrairieDust visual journal

photographer Dave Leiker

Nature’s Kinetic Art

Nature’s Kinetic Art

More grass seed heads, this time found along the Emporia Masonic Lodge Nature Trail, at Camp Alexander outside Emporia, Kansas. This looks like Japanese Brome, please let me know if I mis-identified it.
Thinking Green

Thinking Green

A tiny katydid grasshopper (thanks to Roger for the ID), decked out in a jazzy translucent green paint job, enjoys his perch among wildflowers at Camp Alexander, east of Emporia, Kansas. The real-world size of the creature is roughly 1/2 inch in length. I almost...
Inflorescence

Inflorescence

The sides of the old highway are thick with wildflowers today, especially clover, primrose, asters, and goldenrod. But these simple plumes of wild grass are what really caught my eye. Found along the old highway 50 roadside, Lyon County
May Lightning Storm

May Lightning Storm

Early morning lightning and thunder rolled in with the sunrise in Lyon County today, bringing with it 60 mph winds – which took a few trees and limbs down. I drove out into the country, parked the truck on the edge of road 195, and took some slow-shutter, hand-held...
Pool Party

Pool Party

A muscovy duck family enjoys a moment of togetherness, photographed at the Howe House Step Back in Time event last summer.