The evening the sun casts a glow across the tall grass prairie.
The Big Bluestem is beautiful. It is just beginning to get it’s purple cast. I love this little bit of untouched prairie. Can you imagine buffalo and wild horses running along with this grass tickling their bellies? It must have been quite a sight long ago.
The early settlers must have waded through this field. The Native Tall Grass prairies were not always friendly..a lightening strike could turn this beautiful prairie into a prairie fire that would have to burn itself out.
There are only a few of these untouched fields in our area. I enjoy them while I can, I am sure in a few years they will all be gone:(
Aldo Leopold wrote:
“Man always kills the thing he loves. And so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.”
I LOVE the Aldo Leopold quote….we have wasted so much wilderness and thankfully T.Roosevelt began the national park system and many others worked to preserve some prairie and other wild places. There is a national grassland in Kansas that I really want to see…maybe when we go to see the Crane Refuge in Nebraska in fall or spring. We are much free-er to travel now but it is sad because we have no pet anymore. I still miss her so much and will for such a long time. So many tears for a small cat who I loved so much.
Here is a quote to hang on to for your time when Chance grows old:
“Grieve not,nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you….I loved you so…Twas heaven here with you.”
I stil cannot read it without weeping and I am right now.
PS: I am eager for our big bluestem fields (2 new ones) to grow and flourish.
We have to replant some due to the dry hot summer.