In 2016, we went for a hike at Konza Prairie on December 21. I'm not sure we intended to celebrate the first day of winter by taking a hike....but we basically celebrated the first day of winter....by taking a hike.... Then we repeated that in 2017 and 2018 and 2019, so I guess it's basically our tradition now.
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| The dead tree in 2016 |
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| also 2016 |
In 2017, it seems like the weather was more dreary and overcast and somehow that resulted in seeing a lot more wildlife than usual.
2017
I don't have access to my photo archives, I downloaded the above from facebook so the quality is probably worse than usual. I have one picture from 2018, but I didn't take it and it has people in it that I don't have permission to share here. So. Trust me. We did the thing.
We usually don't run into very many people while we're out there but today I saw quite a few hikers trying to soak in a halfway decent weather day. The sun was in the wrong place for me to get the picture of the view I like best. There's nothing quite like standing on this big hill out there.
The dead tree has come a long way since 2016. It's been on fire. Lost a lot.
We spent several minutes watching a lot of wild turkeys mosey along near the trail. They didn't seem to care about us being there. While we were watching, we heard an owl hooting and several birds making various bird noises. It's just a lovely place to spend an hour or two on a winter afternoon.
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