Prairie Sage

*  The plant-names have been noted.  ;)

cup-plant

 yellow goats-beard

canada  and missouri golden-rod

prarie-sage

cup-plant seed heads

blue lobelia

ox-eye sunflower

aster (purple) and stiff-leaved golden rod with some maximillian sunflowers dotted around

round-headed bush clover

blue prairie sage, purple aster and canada golden rod

the trail with some big blue-stem grass (turkey's foot) on the left

the trail further down

ground cherry

spotted frog

edge of smith lake

trail topped with saw-tooth sunflower at right top.

people fishing at smith lake

my notebook that i bought in 2000 that just now is really getting use (for the plant walk notes)...

Thanks to everyone who came out in the heat for the class and Billie Willie and the Nature Center for their complete graciousness.  The kids and parents were amazing and also did such good drawings, I wish I had more photos of that.  The last photo is of Prairie Sage.  The rest is of plants encountered along the trail taken from my day before walk to see how everything was doing.  I ended up doing the walk on two separate days one pictured in the last plant post and then the day before to be prepared for the actual final walk that was on Sunday, it was so nice to be outside!  Also, Enoch's rendering of the plants he chose, my notes for the Native Plant walk and source of inspiration from just a few of my reference books pictured above.  So anyhow, thanks for lookin'.  I hope the class attendees had a good time...  They were totally great.