#praire creek

[sherrylephotography]

My photography @sherrylephotography

September 2023

Walking through redwoods always rejuvenates my spirit.

#original photography on tumblr #karl knapp trail #praire creek redwood state park #California #usa #redwoods #travel #hiking

[strange-nights-rp]

Meet the Clans - HollowClan

🌾 Territory

Plains, rolling hills and grasslands. Flowers bloom everywhere during newleaf. The occasional live oak tree dot the landscape. Many ponds are scattered throughout the territory, fed by the overflowing creeks of TimberClan when it rains.

🌾 Camp

Burrow - HollowClan's camp consist of underground tunnels and rooms all linked together. Connecting the outside with the Burrow there's a short and wide tunnel that leads to a large common room where cats mingle and share tongues. To its left and upward there's a passageway to the leader's den, straight ahead sits the nursery and slightly downward to the right, the warriors' den. At the bottom there's the elder's den; right and upward of the common room, after a sharp turn one can find the medicine cat's den and right below it the apprentices' den. Other than the entrance there are three more tunnels, they do not immediately lead outside like the former, but to the intricate underground tunnel system that sits under HollowClan's territory. These tunnels are connected to the leader's, warriors' and the medicine cat's dens.

🌾 Landmarks

Twoleg Tower - An abandoned firewatch tower near camp, often used as a lookout point. During the first night after apprentices end their training and have recieved their warrior names they're tasked with standing guard and keep watch atop the tower until dawn as a rite of passage.

Burning Tree - A large cottonwood tree that caught on fire after being struck by lightning.

Horse Place - A small farm where horses are stabled for the nearby campsite, has a garden with many useful herbs. Non-clan cats can often be spotted there.

🌾 Weather

Usually warm and rainy in Newleaf, warm and cloudy in Greenleaf, cool and sometimes rainy in Leaf-fall, and cold in Leaf-bare.

🌾 Governmment

Traditionally leadership in HollowClan is passed down from parent to child. If the leader has more than one offspring and two or more wish to lead, the choice of best candidate is left to the rest of the clan by means of voting.

If the leader doesn't have any offsprings the moment they have to appoint a deputy, the choice again reverts back to the clan. Any cat who's at least had one apprentice may candidate themself. If more than three cats run for the position, then HollowClan's healer and leader choose the three most fitting cats and the whole clan votes.

🌾 Fauna

Prey - Snipe, pheasant, burrowing owl, great prairie chicken, ground squirrel, field mouse, pygmy rabbit, vole, lizard, frog, and the occasional creek and pond fish, such as orange-spotted sunfish, stoneroller and redbelly dace.

Predators - Fox, owl, hawk, eagle, rattlesnake, badger, coyote (rarely).

Other animals - Prairie dog (sacred, forbidden to kill or eat), deer, raven, crow, and the occasional horse or dog from the Horse Place.

🌾 Holidays

Prairie Dog Day - This festivity takes place at the start of Newleaf. Prairie dogs do not hibernate, but during Leaf-bare they stay in their burrows and enter a state that allows their bodies' system to slow down. When Newleaf is about to begin praire dogs leave their burrows and start mingling about in the drying grassland. The day after most prairie dogs wake up is considered Praire Dog Day. Every cat takes the day off to celebrate the end of the cold season, and they may give their rodent neighbors small "welcome back" gifts such as insect, and dry or fresh grass.

Midsummer - Held a couple of days after Summer Solstice, this festivity celebrates the arrival of Greenleaf and the season of fertility. Taking place during one of the longest day of Greenleaf, HollowClan cats wake up at dawn and stay up until dusk to watch the start and end of the day, and during both moments a feast is held. Throughout the day cats pick flowers and style them in their furs into elaborate decorations. Games are also arrenged; the most common is a version of tag that involves swimming, tunneling and running. Apprentices often play with prairie dogs as well.

🌾 Specialized Role

Tunnelers - HollowClan's cats should all be well-acquainted with the craft of tunneling, be it navigating tunnels or using them during hunts, all apprentices are taught the basics of tunneling during their training. But only a pawful of warriors decide to specialize in the field and become experienced workers tasked with mapping, maintaining and digging tunnels. Tunnellers also specialize in hunting underground.

#strange nights #hollowclan #warrior cats #warriors #wc roleplay #warrior cats rp #wc rp #wcrp #snwrp #warriors rp #warriors roleplay

[grimesapologist]

on the banks of plum creek was the most beautiful of the house on the praire books imo, reading it made me so so happy as a child, on the shores of silver lake was too bittersweet, i remember some very sad things happening in it, the neurodivergent in me did reread the house construction chapters of the little house on the praire book over and over i loved the descriptions of cutting the logs into shape and when they finally built the fireplace in the house i was so deeply satisfied

settler colonialism obviously aside as i was a child and not reading them as critically as i would now (though i was made aware!) those books were really so formative for me and were such a rich tapestry thank u laura ingalls wilder for ur writing <3

[headofocs-inklesspen]

I could say a lot about my local Arboretum. Like how much I love just straight up vanishing in to back wood trails for 3-6 hours seeing all of three people the entire time as I roam along the Wolf Creek woods out to the far praire.

But the thing I’m always the most drawn to is in fact the recreation of Monet’s Garden, complete with a gorgeous statue of Monet, poised mid-painting.

Something about him makes me want to sit at the bench and watch him paint. I can’t explain it. No other statue in the park seems so real, so frozen in time to me. He makes for a very good muse, poetry wise.

Once I find my notebook, I have a backlog of poetry to post, including one from a recent trip to the park

#crow rambles #photography #Overland Park arboretum and botanical gardens #claude monet #Statues #Monet Statue #art

[rabbitcruiser]

Bitter Creek Rest Stop, WY (No. 2)

Prairie dogs (genus Cynomys) are  herbivorous burrowing rodents native to the grasslands of North America. The five species are: black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah, and Mexican prairie dogs. They are a type of ground squirrel, found in North America. In Mexico, prairie dogs are found primarily in the northern states, which lie at the southern end of the Great Plains: northeastern Sonora, north and northeastern Chihuahua, northern Coahuila, northern Nuevo León, and northern Tamaulipas. In the United States, they range primarily to the west of the Mississippi River, though they have also been introduced in a few eastern locales. They are also found in the Canadian Prairies. Despite the name, they are not actually canines. 

Prairie dogs are named for their habitat and warning call, which sounds similar to a dog's bark. The name was in use at least as early as 1774.The 1804 journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition note that in September 1804, they "discovered a Village of an animal the French Call the Prairie Dog". Its genus, Cynomys, derives from the Greek for "dog mouse" (κυων kuōn, κυνος kunos – dog; μυς mus, μυός muos – mouse).

Source: Wikipedia

#Bitter Creek Rest Stop #Wyoming #Western USA #USA #travel #wildlife #summer 2019 #original photography #prairie dog #nature #landscape #countryside #praire #mountains #grass #flora #fauna #animal #view #cowboy country #road trip #Lincoln Highway #fence

[outhereontheprairie]

Snake Creek School, Valley County, Montana by Arielle Seibold-Galston Via Flickr: One lovely summer day, I headed out on a road north of Hinsdale Montana. It was probably the most remote route I have ever explored. EVER. I've never quite seen anything like it. It was amazing! I don't know if you can tell...but there is absolutely nothing near this school. Middle of nowhere and nothing. Sitting alone in gorgeous prairie land--it's the Snake Creek School! And it looked as though it was still sometimes maintained, but definitely not used anymore. They left everything behind...desks, books, a piano, everything. Can you imagine going to school here? I think it would be lovely and so cozy in winter! And there is no outhouse! They have indoor plumbing--lucky kids who used to go here! I absolutely love snooping through abandoned schools, you can almost hear the teacher talking and the kids laughing and playing outside. And believe it or not I have found several schools with everything left behind, as if they just walked away at the end of the year. It's incredible, and makes me thankful to live where I do in such a remote place.

#Snake #Creek #School #Valley County #Montana #praire #prairie school #abandoned #country school

[erikdmartin]

Part 3...Praire Creek ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/CLKgQk7BVwa/

#Redwoods⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #illustration #instaart #art #painting #characterdesign #illustration_daily #animation #vi

[spellucci]

Christmas

Friday, February 4, 2022

Christmas is more than just a holiday. The trailhead for Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area is in Christmas, FL at the end of St. Nicholas Ave.

It's 85 and sunny. Our friends in New England are enduring a dangerous ice storm. We gloat. We count our blessings that we get to be warm, even hot. Jeanne's sister told us to be prepared for temps in the 50s and 60s. "80 is really rare". But here we are. We decide to do a half day hike and start early when it is still cooler.

Tosohatchie WMA is yet another habitat -- praire with palmetto brush instead of grass. The trail is sandy and mostly dry.

There is another elegantly engineered bridge crossing Tootoohatchie Creek.

Cypress trees push up knees that are perfectly reflected in the still water.

We stop to take photos of a large vine across the trail putting out smaller liana vines down to the ground. Are they roots? We don't know.

We meet a runner who is tying strips of pink surveyor's tape to bushes along the trail. He introduces himself as Shawn "Run Bum" and immediately informs us that he holds the speed record for the Florida Trail and can do a 50 mile day. Jeanne is not impressed, having met many speed hikers on the Appalachian Trail where there are hills and mountains. 50 miles a day on a flat trail? She could have done it when she was 30.)

Shawn informs us (hastily) that he is marking the trail for a 100-mile marathon being held on the trail over the weekend, and runs off. Tim does a quick search on his phone and finds that he is controversial for claims about his speed records. He was a good topic of conversation for the next mile or so.

We are still feeling good and we are ahead of schedule when we pass the turnaround goal Jeanne had set, so we kept going. We met three people on horses and realize that there are a lot of different loop and side trails here. We turn around at the White Trail junction and retrace our steps.

The last house on St. Nicholas Ave has a large flock of chickens, geese, and cats. The fowl are running back and forth across the road while the cats recline regally on the cool pavement. The woman feeding the flock notices us waiting patiently and shoos the flock and the cats so we can pass. She is friendly and smiles when she sees us laughing.

We drive through Christmas so we can get a photo of a "Welcome to Christmas" sign, but alas. Christmas has 9 commercial buildings spread over a mile of woods. Jeanne gets a photo of the roadsign for Fort Christmas Museum Park.

We don't even discuss going, but head back to Titusville hot and tired. Jeanne takes a shower and insists on going to the beach, because her girlfriends want beach photos to envy while they scrape the ice off their cars. The other direction on Rt 50 is the Indian River with great views of Kennedy Space Center and Canaveral National Seashore. We pull into Kennedy Park, walk down to the water, pull out the scope and start identifying buildings.

Tim spots the Astra Rocket 3 that is scheduled to launch on February 5. Note: That is the launch we rushed to Florida to see that was originally scheduled for January 30. With luck, we will be able to see 3 launches, and this is clearly a great location to watch the Astra tomorrow.

A quick stop at Walmart on our way back gets us the necessities of a kitchen that we don't have at the hotel: paper towels, dish soap, sponge, and better toilet paper. We have all these items in Millie, but she is now almost an hour away. Walmart it is.

We settle to an evening of catching up on the blog and eating delicious grilled pork chops.

Note: We got behind on the blog because we were sad and didn't know how to write a humorous and entertaining blog when we were busy faking how much fun we were having. Now we are actually having fun, we know the bad news, and we aren't going to let it stop our vacation.

[roosaurusrin]

Had a chance encounter with a beautiful Praire Rattlesnake while fossil hunting in the Hell Creek Formation.

#gif #snake #rattlesnake #spoopy snek

[oursabbatical2018]

Redwoods

Our last trip before heading back to DE started with a trip to see the redwoods in northern CA. These trees are really a wonder of nature. So large and beautiful!! Amazing.

“Big Tree” in the Praire Creek Redwood State Park. 24 ft in diameter, 286 ft tall, ~1500 years old. And not the tallest, largest, or oldest tree

And the forest floor is covered with beautiful ferns - which are also huge.

Karen sitting inside a turned over stump

Karen inside a burned out tree

[sherrylephotography]

My photography @sherrylephotography taken 9/23 posted 10/23

Roosevelt Bull Elk at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in north Humboldt County California. Mature bulls weigh from 700 to 1200 lb and it is best to keep your distance so you don't get hurt. I zoomed in to get the bull. I don't know why it has grass on its head.

#original photography on tumblr #roosevelt bull elk #elk #praire creek redwoods state park #california #usa #travel

[goneclamming-afishingblog]

Shooting some Tri-x in the dense coastal redwood forest of Praire Creek State Park in California. The forest floor gets minimal light, which allows ferns to grow abundantly, however offers poor lighting for photos. I found this patch of light through a gap in the old growth redwoods and took advantage of the fading daylight. My girlfriend was attempting to catch raindrops in her mouth but kept taking them to the face. This was shot on my Mamiya 7 II and pushed 2 stops. It was the only truly sharp portrait I got.

#praire creek #state park #old growth redwoods #california #film #kodak #tri-x #mamiya 7 #road trip #black and white #grain #portrait