Wild Ozark™

Category: Nature

  • Photos of a misty day in the Ozarks

    beech tree at wild ozark

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    A Misty Day in the Ozarks

    One of my favorite kinds of trees, the beech, keeps leaves long after the others have disrobed and gone into winter’s sleep.

    Almost …

  • How Far Removed – Predator and Prey

    Out here we have a healthy balance between predator and prey. Squirrels crowd the treetops, mice are at home in sheds and even in our house if we aren’t diligent. Snakes lurk everywhere.

    snake eating squirrel

    Predator and Prey

    Coyotes are plentiful. The …

  • The Ent Trees of Wild Ozark

    Special Trees

    Two special trees grace the dirt road where I live. There are more trees like this here and there on our own acreage, tree-beings, or trees that appear and do more than trees appear to normally do.

    Of …

  • Winter is Here in the Ozarks

    First it was the frost flowers. They showed up last week during our first really cold spell.
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    Then yesterday as we were on our way home from grocery shopping the first sleet began. Soon after the plinking sounds of tiny …

  • Frost Flowers

    frost flowers

    The first time I saw frost flowers here in northwest Arkansas, about nine years ago now, I thought they were trash collected at the base of weeds on the roadsides.

    And then I saw a photo at Cloudland and the …