Kleckner Oasis – Page 100 – ~Oasis Among the Cornfields~

Green Wall of Iowa

In cold climates, there aren’t a lot of options for fast growing screening and windbreaks.

The Bigfoot Hybrid Willow has grown very fast and creates a green wall of growth.

The Green King Elm has grown very fast for the last few years.

This hybrid tree is very fast growing shade for the goats.

I like having different colored trees.

This is a purple-leafed tree called Crimson King Maple, which is a cultivar of the Norway Maple(Acer platanoides).

I have had the Whitney Crabapple tree for awhile now.

This was the first year it has produced fruit and was the earliest apple this year.

A by-product of sweet corn are the corn cobs.

The goats quickly consume all the cobs I feed them.

I have been growing a lot of jalapenos this year.

This jalapeno variety is larger than the common type.

Moths generally are boring in color.

But I found these two colorful moths around the same time this month.

There has been a lot of Tobacco Hornworms of various colors this year.

They have adapted and feed on the Mirabilis genus, the same flowering plants the adult moths use as their food source.

My Ussurian Plum trees have been flowering for a few years now.

This was the first year these plums fruited. The Ussurian Plum fruit is on the left side.

Sunrise and wind turbines frequently mix on the horizon.

Thunderstorms are frequently popping up in the hot summer months.

Sun, water, and fog combined for this photo: