Blooms and Bugs, July 2026
July in Iowa is a good month for flowers, and with the flowers come pollinators. So, a dozen photos of […]
Song: Plasma Donor Needle Tracks
A few weeks ago, I came across some old folders and notebooks that contained early versions of a song I
Backyard Birds: January through June 2026
A delightful dozen photo gallery. I looked through my backyard bird photos for the first half of the year and
Old Railroad Prairie
In my little town, there’s a 1.5 acre (0.6 hectare) prairie planting, and I’ve been involved with it since the
Northern Flicker Family
This spring, a pair of Northern Flicker woodpeckers excavated a nesting cavity in a stump on my property and reared
The Brick Abides
The town came and went, but the brick abides. In Iowa, many little towns were born alongside the new railroads