Tag: Meadowbrook Nature Preserve

• The Busy Bee

  

  Summer is the best time of the year to visit Peg’s Native Plant Garden at Meadowbrook Nature Preserve. Among the many pollinators in the garden was this busy bee. I followed it from blossom to blossom until it stopped long enough for me to focus and click. The trails at Meadowbrook Nature Preserve are open all year…

  01/10/2024

• Empty and Abandoned

  

  Surrounded by the beauty of nature stands an old outhouse, empty and abandoned along the trail. A gallery of landscapes from Meadowbrook Nature Preserve were featured on “Changing Colors.” Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge – Pick a Topic (building)

  11/18/2023

• Path to Sunshine

  

  A great way to start the day is hiking along a tree-lined path to sunshine. This trail happens to be at Meadowbrook Nature Preserve in Valparaiso, Indiana. “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than trees.” – Henry David Thoreau Cee’s Which Way Challenge: Any Type of Walk

  09/08/2023

• The Details Within

  

  It’s almost impossible for me to walk past a flower without pausing to take a closer look at the details within. Hiking along the same paths will probably take me a lot shorter time in a couple of months or so when the flowers have all disappeared until spring. This flower within a flower was…

  09/05/2023

• Sweetness of Pollen

  

  A fuzzy bee paused from buzzing from flower to flower to feed on the sweetness of pollen in a sunflower in Peg’s Garden at Meadowbrook Nature Preserve. Ragtag Daily Prompt – Feed

  08/23/2023

• The Masked Fly

  

  Masked Fly” might catch some attention and someone might be able to help me identify it. Do you know?

  08/14/2023

• Topsy-Turvy Spheres

  

  Clear blue skies and bright morning sun produced rows of topsy-turvy spheres as dewdrops showed off tiny reflections of a world turned upside down. Mornings have been cooler than normal which meant no hungry mosquitoes and that is always a plus. A three mile hike through the prairie and forests at Meadowbrook Nature Preserve only…

  08/13/2023

• Poised to Fall

  

  Dewdrops, poised to fall with the slightest breeze. These morning dewdrops were captured earlier this week along the trails at Meadowbrook Nature Preserve in Valparaiso, Indiana. Fandango’s One Word Challenge – Poised

  08/02/2023