Beautiful pics, Lindylair, especially the ones with the Sumac. Growing up spending my time down at the river (Mississippi) in the woods I never thought I'd like the prairie either? I guess I thought it would be kinda like extreme SE MO flat as a pancake row crops, but was I wrong! Some of my favorite pics are prairie pics.
So, here's a pic of the early snow here at the farm and one of the SD prairie: