Hillside Prairie
The Hillside Prairie is a project I’ve been working on for over 15 years — a little patch of land […]
Nature
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
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
Butterflies and Sunflowers
This is a companion to a previous post, Hummingbirds and Sunflowers. The Sunflowers in question are Mexican Sunflowers (Tithonia rotundifolia,