silken waves

the roadsides are now tossing with our midwestern prairie grasses. these are foxtails, but there are so many of these bushy haired grasses that get referred to as foxtail that the word isn’t very helpful. this one happens to be foxtail barley. i think it’s the prettiest. it has the longest hairs, and when the wind moves over dense clumps of it, it looks like lake waves moving in late evening light.

foxtail barley grasses