A Mother's Day tribute

A Mother's Day tribute

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I wrote this as a tribute to my mother, Ada Mae Packer Foote, who was still alive at the time. She passed away on May 7, 2014. Mother’s

In the shadow of giants: A Mother’s Day tribute from the prairie

There is a kind of hush that falls over the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge when the sun begins its slow descent and the prairie exhales. In that golden hour of May, the sky turns to honey and shadow, and the land stretches out like a lullaby. It was in this stillness that I took the photograph.