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 […]
Photography
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
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,
Hummingbirds and Sunflowers
These photos, taken over the last 4 years, show Ruby-throated Hummingbirds with Mexican Sunflowers. It’s a great combination. Notes: None
The Man on the Bridge
In 1984, I studied Spanish for six weeks in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. The school was on a major avenue in