Hillside Prairie
The Hillside Prairie is a project I’ve been working on for over 15 years — a little patch of land […]
Iowa
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
Vagabonding, 1981
In 1980-1981, after one year of college, I decided to put my education on hold. I returned to my hometown,