Showing posts with label Greenlee Wildlife Preserve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greenlee Wildlife Preserve. Show all posts

14 March, 2012

Theres a slight breeze on this sunny spring day.

I was here a year ago, this week.

The city had conducted a controlled burn of the cattails. It was a black, charred mess, and there was a lingering smoky smell.

They haven’t done a burn this year.

Today, many of the golden stalks are matted down from being dried and broken, weighed down with snow for the past few months.

I hear a lot of birds in the trees; I dont see much activity.

The water level is low. I see several mated pairs of mallards on the water.

            the shining green of the mallards head in the sunshine

            just days before spring
            one fall leaf still on the tree 
            a couple of crows

Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, Lafayette, Colorado

10 August, 2011

dragonflies and wind
in the seven-foot cattails —
ripples from raindrops

Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, Lafayette, Colorado

30 June, 2011

cars on Baseline Road —
the cattails are four feet high
at the end of June

Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, Lafayette, Colorado

21 June, 2011

a blue dragonfly
sparkles in the green cattails —
first day of summer

Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, Lafayette, Colorado

15 June, 2011

a white moth flutters —
the yellow-headed blackbird
perched on the cattail

Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, Lafayette, Colorado

17 March, 2011

on St. Patricks Day 
broken and burnt cattail stalks,
birds in the distance

Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, Lafayette, Colorado