2012 started out with a warm March and plenty of early moisture. By summer, very hot weather came and the rains completely stopped, and we had a pretty good drought. There was a lot of color through June but after that most of the wildflowers started to shut down for the year.

Grayhead and upright coneflowers

Facing North

Looking good

Nice clumps of grasses

Savanna area running along stream

Ohio Spiderwort

Blue Flax

Where water drains weeds are more of a problem

Smooth Penstemon

Aphrodite Fritillary?

Sideoats grama

New england aster blooming over 2 months early

Purple coneflower

Black-eyed susan and blanketflower

Hoary vervain

Mexican red hat coneflower

Sideoats grama grass

Mix of forbs

Grayhead coneflower

Little bluestem grass

Nice diversity of forbs and grasses

False sunflower

Switchgrass is 6′ tall

Nice cluster of purple coneflowers

Grayhead coneflower has long petals

Wild bergamot is 6′ tall!

Playing around with new macro lens

Ohio Spiderwort

Bee on Grayhead Coneflower

No idea what type of fly it is

Crab spider

Wild Bergamot

Canada Wildrye

Macro of leaf
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