Bison, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas, bison with birds, hiking, native prairie wildlife,

From Bison to Dung Beetles

Tallgrass Prairie, Kansas On our way to visit our grandkids in Minnesota this summer, we stopped at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, about 15 miles west of Emporia, Kansas.  Prairie lands

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sandhill cranes, birds, birds in flight, New Mexico Southwest, micro four-thirds, Bernardo Wildlife Area

Sandhill Cranes

Early winter is the time when the sandhill cranes and other waterbirds arrive in the southwest U.S. after they migrate from Canada and other points north.  Bosque del Apache National

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Petrified Log Cross Section, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Fossils and Petrified Wood

This post is a little unusual for me because it is not from just one place or about just one subject.  For the past several summers we visited some sites

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