AN INSPIRING WINTER SCENE ALONG THE RIVER Size:8x12 GALLERY WRAP After photographing the cottonwood trees

After photographing the cottonwood trees being back lit by the sunlight

Ruddy ducks and pied-billed grebes spend a few days resting and recouping at Wildflower Lake before continuing their migration north on this beautiful spring morning at Wildflower park

focused on the blazing star flower and began photographing

I didn't have to wait long before those colors of oranges and reds came alive with cumulus clouds picking up those colors along with a low lying mist hovering over the prairie landscape

AN INSPIRING WINTER SCENE ALONG THE RIVER Size:8x12 GALLERY WRAP After photographing the cottonwood treesThere is beauty in every season, sometimes you have to break out of your daily routine to find and enjoy what has been given to us. This image was photographed a couple weeks ago during some of the snow storms we had here in Northern Illinois. South Fork Kishwaukee River Wildflower Park. (477 137)