if you follow any one of these stems up from the roots to the bottle brush seed head at the top, you’ll notice how slender and fragile the stem looks. in the summer, green and muscular, they could survive a tornado. now in their old age, they barely survived being lifted off the floor and set gently down on a bed of white paper. in the world of still blog, that means there are a couple of weeks left when stems are available to be featured, and then we will get our first really heavy snow, and all of those fragile stems will break, and disappear under a thick white blanket. so expect to see some stems for a bit. then, it’s on to branches. remember you said you were going to stick with me …

foxtail parairie grass

rice creek regional trail, saint paul, minnesota