

The Yaks at KRK Ranch and Fees are enjoying the cold weather and snow. East Central Illinois has had about 16 inches already and it’s not even officially winter yet!
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The Yaks at KRK Ranch and Fees are enjoying the cold weather and snow. East Central Illinois has had about 16 inches already and it’s not even officially winter yet!

It has been extremely cold here on the Illinois Prairie. The day I took this photo it was -2 degrees outside. But the sun did put on a grand show as it set across the western horizon.

A cold morning at Homer Lake.


The northern lights out on quite a show on the evening of November 11. I was down in Kentucky and they were very visible over Lake Barkley. Simply beautiful.



Cave-In-Rock, Illinois sits on a bluff above the Ohio River. To cross from the Kentucky side you take a ferry across the river.
I came through on my way home and times my stop to see the sunrise over the Ohio. It is a breathtaking view to see the sun come up there.
Cave-In-Rock itself is a small town of about 1,300 people. There is a state park that has the actual Cave-In-Rock that you can visit.
This location has been a stop for mankind for hundreds if not thousands of years.

As summer comes to a close take a moment to enjoy the colors. Fall is just days away and winter on the horizon.

I was near Danville, Illinois recently and started seeing balloons over the horizon in the distance. It was a perfectly calm evening and several balloons had gathered for a flight over Lake Vermilion.

I made a visit to Itasca State Park in Minnesota to see the Mississippi River headwaters. From this spot the river flows 2,552 miles south to the Gulf of Mexico.

New Yak Calf – April and her mother
This spring and summer have brought three new Yak calves to the KRK Ranch family. KRK is a small Yak herd in east-central Illinois. All of the calves and mothers are doing well and have been quite the hit with the the many friends and neighbors of KRK. You can follow KRK on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560676805145#