Summer Colors

A splash of summer color with Yellow Coneflowers (Ratibida pinnata) and Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) – Aldo Leopold Nature Center. As kids we watched our dad help restore prairies and learned a lot about all the plants that help make prairie soil healthy and productive. My dad was a student of Aldo Leopold at the University of Wisconsin and helped with the restoration of the Curtus Prairie, a centerpiece of Leopold’s work at the UW Arboretum in Madison. Today, I greatly appreciate those lessons on soil conservation we learned on the farm growing up and the meaning of “Land Ethic” that both Leopold and my dad so strongly believed in. (Monona, Wisconsin)

≡Canon R5/RF100 MACRO 100mm f/20 1/125sec iso-500