
swenson wet prairie is now a part of the avon bottoms s.n.a. but it was established as its own site, so i’m counting it. it’s a wet prairie in the floodplain of the sugar river near where the river meets taylor creek. there’s also a sedge meadow and river bottom savanna(!), and a number of oxbows. its frozen state this december is gorgeous.
a.
open water
below swamp oaks
is sheer grace





b.
a blue bird sits
over frozen duckweed—
graceful arcs



