As a landowner and artist, Pat James has been using photographs to document, understand, and interpret the 600 acres she lives on along the Missouri National Recreational River in Boyd County, Nebraska. She has photographed and identified over 200 different forbs, shrubs, and vines that live on her family’s acreage. Using digital methods to refine the plant photographs and layer them on photographs of sky, she creates portraits that express the plants’ individual beauty and personalities. Her images, research, and personal experience tell a story about life on this land.