A BEAUTIFUL MORNING ON THE PRAIRIE PIED-BILLED GREBE (PODILYMBUS PODICEPS) I was looking for some

I was looking for some subjects to photograph along the trail with the sun illuminating those subjects when I came upon this Kentucky coffee tree being backlit with an orange glow from the morning sun

The early morning sunlight brightens the florets of the common milkweed at Wildflower Park

A beautiful spring sunrise illuminates this scene along the south fork Kishwaukee River as a male mallard duck swims close by

A flock of canada geese rest for a few days on a frozen Wildflower Lake as they prepare for their late winter migration north at Wildflower Park

I enjoyed viewing and photographing them as they rested at Wildflower Lake before flying north on their migration

A BEAUTIFUL MORNING ON THE PRAIRIE PIED-BILLED GREBE (PODILYMBUS PODICEPS) I was looking for someAn early morning summer show of wildflowers that consists of blue vervain, ironweed and penstemon with tall grasses complimenting this beautiful scene at Wildflower Prairie. (456 33)