THE CONEFLOWERS OF THE PRAIRIE GRAY I reached the trailhead before

I reached the trailhead before 5:00 am

A prairie of black-eyed susan brings color and beauty to this prairie landscape scene at Wildflower Park

A beautiful moment as patterns from the trail and colors from the flowers and grasses become visible as I pass over Eakin Creek West at Wildflower Park

camera and focused on the coneflowers

This is from the snow storm we had last week

THE CONEFLOWERS OF THE PRAIRIE GRAY I reached the trailhead beforeThe forecast was to be another sunny beautiful day so, I left the house around 4: 30 am and headed to the Burnidge Forest Preserve. The previous days I scouted out a few areas to photograph the wildflowers and the Burnidge Forest Preserve had plenty to photograph so, I made that my priority today. I knew where in the preserve I wanted to go to photograph the wildflowers because, there were an abundance of them. It wasn't long before I reached the area