Photos: Drive to Lincoln, Pawnee and Branched Oak SRA

 Today we went to Lincoln to pick up my new glasses.  Then we drove to Pawnee State Recreation Area and Branched Oak State Recreation Area.

Fireworks clematis

Platte River nearly empty of water.

Fortunately, rain was coming.

Iris, with the falls just unfurling.

Fireworks clematis

Pawnee State Recreation Area

Blue False Indigo (Baptisia australis)

Eastern red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

Great Blue Herons

Great Blue Heron

Gray Catbird

Spirea

Eastern red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

Blue False Indigo (Baptisia australis)

Lamb's ear

Turkey Vultures

Herons in the water, vultures in the sky

Great Blue Heron

Branched Oak State Recreation Area

When the sun went down in the west, it shown on stormclouds in the east, making them glow.