Through the Seasons: A Rocky Mountain Front Range Native Wildflower Garden in AUTUMN Rocky Mountain Front Range Winter scene featuring eight species

Winter scene featuring eight species of birds that live year-round in the boreal forest of interior Alaska where daylight lasts just a few hours each day and winter temperatures often drop below -40° F

This breeding separation has led to the development of several different types or subspecies

I make sure to repeatedly visit the lakes and ponds where these beautiful shorebirds arrive on their return migration to nesting grounds further north and east of my home

Original: 12 x 25 Acrylic on canvas by Susan E

an iconic bird of western coniferous forests

Through the Seasons: A Rocky Mountain Front Range Native Wildflower Garden in AUTUMN Rocky Mountain Front Range Winter scene featuring eight speciesA native wildflower garden along the front range of the Rocky Mountains delivers beauty as well as habitat for birds and pollinators throughout the year. From late August through mid to late October, the garden changes almost daily as leaf colors gradually change from green to golden yellow and shades of red and orange. Fall blooming black eyed susans, chocolate flowers, goldenrod, and a few remaining columbines and prairie coneflowers add other