THERE'S NO ICE BETTER THEN CRAB APPLE ICE LEPIDOPTERA I didn't have to wait

I didn't have to wait long before the colors of the sunrise were revealed and the sun breaking the horizon

I began photographing the wildflowers that consisted of blue vervain

It doesn't take long to come upon the section of the creek that I enjoy

checking out a loon when I lifted my head up and noticed this loon swimming just off shore checking me out

yellow coneflower and teasel weed

THERE'S NO ICE BETTER THEN CRAB APPLE ICE LEPIDOPTERA I didn't have to waitA winter scene of Icicles dangle beneath frozen crab apples after a freezing rain storm passes through the night before in Northern Illinois at Wildflower Park. (531 132)