Tinker and Wander Photos

IOWA SNOWS

2009-12-29T22:21:00.002-06:00

It was a white Christmas here.

Moving water is beginning to freeze.

SUDDENLY WINTER

2009-12-12T08:19:00.002-06:00

Now they're all gone.

Jesse cares not for Winter.

UP TO DATE

2009-12-05T14:54:00.005-06:00

If Only in my Dreams.

Window Light

Wet

Stuck

Graindust Sunrise

STILL BEHIND

2009-12-05T14:51:00.002-06:00

Little Red Wagon

Nash in the Weeds

Pretty in Private

Path to Autumn

Place in the Shade

MORE CATCHING UP

2009-12-05T14:48:00.005-06:00

Friday Night- Everyone is Ready

Happy Halloween

World Toy Camera Day

Canning Hot Sauce

Harvest Time

CATCHING UP ON PHOTOS

2009-12-05T14:40:00.004-06:00

Main Street

Reading Backwards

Howdy

Shy

Sumac

THE KIDS AT CHURCH

2009-09-06T17:53:00.003-05:00

Remember getting uncontrollable giggles? This bunch got em this morning in church. It was fun watching them try to stop.

TYMPANY TRIP HAT

2009-08-26T07:29:00.005-05:00

The latest addition to Pam's knit projects is the "Tympany Trip" hat, knit with yarn bought on vacation at Nautical Yarn in Ludington Michigan.

I like this hat not just because it's beautiful, but it reminds me of the Mad Bomber hat I bought at Bass Pro Shops, which is soooo warm on sub-zero days.

AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN

2009-08-23T12:39:00.006-05:00

I'm trying to get back to taking walks regularly because it's "good for me." It gets monotonous, but taking a camera along makes it less so. This particular day the sun was setting and clouds were moving in, and in a tiny window of sky the sun and clouds were mingling to produce a beautiful amber glow behind the Co-op Grain Elevator.

THE GARDEN THAT NEVER ENDS

2009-08-18T22:04:00.006-05:00

It must seem like it has no end, to Marcy, who has been canning and pickling everything that John can pick.

This was taken a little over a month ago and since that time the back yard has become considerably more colorful. With the explosive blooming of flowers, one could say that hummingbirds almost outnumber mosquitoes in this back yard.

SURPRISE! NAKED LADIES!

2009-08-16T12:54:00.004-05:00

Our Surprise Lilies, AKA Naked Ladies have sprung up in a beautiful cluster and I took advantage of a breezeless evening to snap a picture of them.

GOOD NEIGHBORS

2009-08-15T11:20:00.003-05:00

Our neighbor Shelly has a large vegetable and flower garden. I've wandered over there with my camera a few times and shot her flowers. I happened to get over there and capture these dahlias with some good early evening light.

MY MOM AND ME

2009-08-09T18:00:00.004-05:00

My Mom and me on her back porch. Taken with a Diana.

JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS

2009-08-07T16:26:00.005-05:00

Just by chance, we met up with Carolyn at the Jasper County Fair. It's just one of those things that worked out perfectly 'by chance." It was a fun evening.

BLUE LAKE & MICHIGAN PART TWO

2009-07-29T20:21:00.015-05:00

Alice at the main entrance to Blue Lake.

The Symphony Orchestra and Concert Orchestra. Alice is in both pictures, but it's difficult to find her.

Alice in official Blue Lake attire on concert day.

Woodwind Ensemble.

Piano practice cabins named Do, Re, and Mi.

Bartlett Shell is one of the performance centers scattered throughout the woods at Blue Lake, and where all of Alice's concerts were held.

The performers were performing and the instrument cases were at ease, in the shelter house behind the band shell.

One of many beautiful practice areas in the woods.

Pam found a great knitting shop in Holland, Michigan.

Cooperative Models.

Pam in Paradise!

Friends of Wool - A Shop for Knitters. Holland Michigan.

BLUE LAKE & MICHIGAN TRIP

2009-07-21T18:05:00.029-05:00

This past week we took Alice to Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in the Muskegon, Michigan area. The camp is situated in a beautiful pine forest.

"Schubert" is the cabin in which Alice bunked.

A panoramic shot of the inside of Schubert Cabin.

A note from Genevieve, a Blue Lake camper who bunked on Alice's cot during the first Summer session. She stayed over for the second two week session but had to change cabins. Alice and Genevieve quickly became friends

The cluster of cabins which make up a unit.

Getting some last minute texting in before cellphone use is forbidden at camp.

Pam and Alice at Texas Roadhouse for lunch before heading back to camp for the duration.

THE REST OF OUR MICHIGAN TRIP:

After leaving Alice at Blue Lake, Pam and I drove to Eastern Michigan to visit Pam's Uncle, but before leaving the Muskegon area we drove to the beach along Lake Michigan.

The Eastern shore of Lake Michigan. It was a beautiful day and the lake was absolutely stunning. This was the first time I had seen it, and to say I was awestruck is an understatement.

I'm sitting by the lake, looking like I do this all the time.

Pam and her Uncle Kenneth

Pam's Uncle Kenneth has twenty six varieties of apples in his orchard.

Kenneth lives near the beautiful town of Frankenmuth, "Michigan's Little Bavaria."

One of the highlights of Frankenmuth is Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, a store the size of 1 1/2 football fields filled with Christmas gifts and trimmings.

"Merry Christmas" in Russian and "Happy New Year" in Ukrainian.

To top off our trip to Frankenmuth we had dinner at Zehnder's, a restaurant I highly recommend and intend to return to someday to eat the entire portion of the "Chicken Liver Plate," with all the sides.

SUCCULENT SEDUM

2009-07-11T12:38:00.003-05:00

Sedum growing from a strawberry jar in our garden. The plant sits out in the garden all Winter with total neglect and still comes forth with beautiful flowers.

IMPERIAL DEBONAIR

2009-07-08T16:22:00.004-05:00

One of the oddest looking cameras in my collection is the "Imperial Debonair", A Herbert George Co. camera. It has a single plastic lens and takes 620 film which one has to respool from 120 film, (no big deal). These can be found on eBay quite inexpensively. Don't you just love the little lens shade above the lens?

Most of the photos I've taken with this camera were done before I had a film scanner and so were processed as prints in the darkroom and never digitized. The bottom photo is one of my favorites taken with the Imperial Debonair. It's not a film scan but just a scan of the small print. I need to look up some of those old negatives and scan them, someday when I have time.

CLEMATIS

2009-07-07T14:32:00.003-05:00

We have a clematis in the middle of our garden. I used a close-up filter that I got at Christian Photo's bargain bin (a complete set of 3 for $5.00,) and got some nice blur from leaves in the foreground and some decent bokeh.

LIGHTNING BUG

2009-07-05T16:37:00.004-05:00

Cone Flowers are out in full force. They don't get much time to be beautiful on a stand alone basis before they get eaten up by bugs and baked in the sun, but even in the bedraggled state they soon come to be in they're still pretty. I like them especially in the Winter when they wear a cap of snow on their cones.

I caught a lightning bug on this one, just biding it's time till dark so he can then do whatever it is lightning bugs do.

INDEPENDENCE DAY

2009-07-02T22:09:00.006-05:00

It's been nearly a month since I posted anything here. The time that I interrupted posting, coincides with the time I started cutting out wood pieces for 35 birdhouse kits, that was to be one of the craft projects at our Vacation Bible School.

Once my mind wanders off in a different direction, it just kind of meanders, and until now it didn't find the fork in the road that would return it to the ol blog. What better time to get back at it than Independence Day weekend.

The top picture is the door to our local American Legion Hall and the bottom photo is a dill plant in our garden that I thought looked kind of like fireworks.

DRIVERS LICENSE

2009-06-04T04:34:00.004-05:00

Driving test was passed and driver's license was obtained. She's even happy with her license photo.

FLASH DIFFUSER

2009-06-02T04:49:00.004-05:00

I made a bounce flash diffuser from a plastic blue cheese container. Alice said it didn't look as silly as the one I made from a shampoo bottle with a latex glove stretched over it. She agreed to pose for me outside in the early evening when a little fill flash is just the thing you need.

The results? In a posed, relaxed, no pressure situation, it worked great. It's yet to be seen how well it performs when I actually need to fish it from the camera bag and use it.

NEW DRIVER - NEW CAR

2009-05-30T09:34:00.005-05:00

The New Car! 2001 Ford Taurus, 151000 miles, Fine Condition.
The Girl! Sixteen, just completed sophomore year with 4.0 gpa intact and ready to get licensed.
Selmer the Key Chain Monkey! Vivid, always happy and ready for a car ride, likes to sit on drivers knee.

The complete package--Priceless!

BECKY IN PINK

2009-05-28T09:28:00.003-05:00

Rebecca Hinshaw, not so very long ago.

CHASE AND REBECCA'S WEDDING

2009-05-26T20:35:00.012-05:00

Bouquet tossing anticipation.

Becky with Chase and then the dance with her Dad.

Becky dancing with brother Ben and beautiful young sister Kate dancing with Chase.

My favorite! This picture speaks many words of love, caring and trust.

Aunt Marjorie

Tenny (Father of Bride), with Tom (Uncle). Tenny and the ever so beautiful Christy (Mother of Bride)

Christy with her Dad, Jerry.

Dad walks her down the aisle and then performs the service.

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Chase Lucas.

NO APOLOGIES

2009-05-13T18:20:00.001-05:00

From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, My home sweet home.

SCHOOL BUSES

2009-05-11T04:59:00.005-05:00

As chaperones for High School Band road trips, we are required to ride with the students on the buses.

One would think that in all the years school buses have been in existence, bus design engineers would have come up with a seat that would be at least moderately comfortable. They haven't. They remain the most uncomfortable seats on any motorized vehicle I've ever been on.

SPRING'S AROMA

2009-05-08T05:01:00.005-05:00

With the lilacs being in bloom this week, the backyard smells wonderful.

Seasonal delicacies come and go quickly, but as one exits, another enters. When the lilacs are gone, the peonies will bloom. The strawberries are now flowering and will be ready to eat in a few weeks. Then it's on to sweet corn and tomatoes (my personal favorite), peppers, onions and spices from the garden.

BRIDGE TO SUMMER

2009-05-05T20:29:00.017-05:00

The Birthday Party for my niece and nephew, held out in the woods, has become something of a tradition. Along with a campfire, hot dogs and complete picnic trimmings, we all enjoy fishing, canoeing, mushroom hunting, relaxing and visiting. It happens at a time when Spring is well under way and Summer is not far off.

Some pictures from the party:

Nate at 14!

Kate at 14!

Candles successfully blown out.

Katie with nice boots!

Nate with Airsoft Pistol!

Savannah of SavannahCat's Blog.

Grandpa Jerry, as in sync with his timber as the trees themselves.

ONLY WITH LIGHT

2009-05-01T22:06:00.004-05:00

John 12:46 - "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness."

STORIES IN WALLS

2009-04-29T17:32:00.005-05:00

An old apartment with crumbling walls, unoccupied and barricaded by a chain.

If those walls could let loose the stories of the lives that were lived within them, I would love to listen.

HIGH SCHOOL TALENT

2009-04-26T17:27:00.006-05:00

Our High School had "CAFE"- their annual talent show, which includes individual performers as well as performances by the Jazz Band and Show Choir. The Jazz Band donned "70's" attire for the show and the saxophone section decided to wear fake mustaches as well.

A few more of my favorite shots from from the show.

Chloe

Austin

Nate

GONE FISHING

2009-04-23T19:19:00.004-05:00

With a freshly cleaned tackle box, we'll soon be heading to the lake to find out whether Alice or I, catch the first fish. It's been a few years since I've had to hook them and let her reel them in. She's now as good at fishing as I am. I'm glad she still likes to fish.

EARTH DAY

2009-04-22T18:13:00.004-05:00

Read all about it!!

SUNDAY AFTERNOON CAT NAP

2009-04-20T15:49:00.005-05:00

Cats and knitting go together like meat and potatoes. Throw in a cold Sunday afternoon with naps all around, and it just doesn't get any better.

TRAIN RIDE

2009-04-19T11:16:00.003-05:00

I've never taken a real train ride, just the amusement park kind. It's something I want to do someday.

THIRSTY ROOTS

2009-04-16T21:38:00.006-05:00

The tree stands tall and strong.
Trees don't want anything, but they do need things. Obviously this one is getting what it needs.
A few more bouts of flooding and it's likely to become a bridge across the creek.

CLARINETIST

2009-04-13T04:27:00.006-05:00

Concentration and coordination.
Eyes, lips, fingers, movement, breathing.
Music, musician.

ON A HILL FAR AWAY

2009-04-11T10:19:00.002-05:00

In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For 'twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.

TREE STREAKS

2009-04-10T04:35:00.004-05:00

A slow shutter speed combined with camera movement up or down gives a kind of streaky look. I'm sure it would work better during early morning or evening. A sunset or sunrise background would be nice. I'll definitely try this again.

WISDOM OF MEN

2009-04-08T15:06:00.005-05:00

The weekly assignment at Digital Photography School was "Wisdom". Above is my entry.

Certainly, there are many ways to photographically interpret wisdom. The Bible is at the top of my list, but it being already well represented in the assignment forum, I decided to take my interpretation of wisdom from great inventions. This being a category that has quite a substantial number of things in it, I narrowed it down to what I had available in my workshop.

My method of "working on things" usually begins with finesse and precision, but sometimes gets replaced rather quickly by the "Brute Force and Duct Tape Method". Finesse and precision just takes too long.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALICE

2009-04-06T04:56:00.004-05:00

Happy Sixteen to my Daughter!

THINKING BIG

2009-04-03T21:08:00.022-05:00

------------View on Black----------------------------- View on Black

The tracks of the Central Rock Island and Pacific Railroad reached this town of Kellogg, Iowa in the spring of 1866. It continued it's Westward way, with the first train passing through Kellogg on July 1, 1867.

The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads were joined with a golden spike ceremony at Promontory Utah, on
May 10, 1869. The East coast of the United States was connected with the West coast.

Big ideas by some big thinkers.

PINKS

2009-04-02T04:38:00.005-05:00

Just a few of the essential elements that make a girl pretty.

AMPLIFIERS

2009-03-30T21:08:00.000-05:00

Amplifiers are sturdy, heavy and definitely cool! The term "Workhorse" comes to mind. If I could play guitar, I would have a killer amp.

ALICE AT NIGHT OF JAZZ

2009-03-29T16:47:00.004-05:00

Annual High School "Night of Jazz", with a wonderful dinner and good jazz.

SHALLOW DEPTH OF FIELD

2009-03-28T21:58:00.003-05:00

The current weekly assignment at Digital Photography School is "Shallow Depth of Field". It's been snowing out all day, so I decided to shoot something inside. The cats food bowl with the bag in the background seemed like it might be a decent shot. When I moved the bowl to set up the shot, it scraped the floor and the cats woke from their naps thinking, it's a new day and time for breakfast.

Junior (pictured) would not be deterred, so I took the shot with him in it and I kind of like it.

PARK SWING

2009-03-26T19:25:00.005-05:00

When I was a kid, the seats on this swing were wood boards. We would slide out of them and fly through the air, always trying to best our previous mark, or better yet beat the other kid's marks.

Barely a stones throw away from the swings there was a lake where we fished. The lake was next to a river and across the river was the town dump, where we spent countless hours breaking any glass items we could find and shooting rats with BB guns. The good old slightly dangerous days.

DClone90

2009-03-25T16:54:00.003-05:00

Just because I've got a new toy with my Nikon D90 doesn't mean I've given up tinkering with vintage and toy cameras. I've figured out a way to basically put a digital back on these cameras. Just use a piece of ground glass, attach it to the film plane and open the lens and take a picture of the glass with the digital camera.

I will perfect this with a tube later this Spring when it's warm enough to work comfortably in the garage. A black tube connecting the digital camera to the film camera will cut out stray light and should render an image faithful to what the lens (in this case a Diana Clone) projects to the film plane. It worked quite well in these first experiments.

Diana and Holga with digital backs and image stabilization, plus instant image gratification sounds like fun to me.

FARM COUNTRY

2009-03-24T05:05:00.003-05:00

Nature's beauty, like blessings from God or answers to prayers are often hidden in plain sight.

DEER & CARS

2009-03-23T04:31:00.003-05:00

At an insurance company this would have been assigned a claim number and someone's deductible was possibly met and the auto was probably fixed.

AMERICAN SLIDE AGAIN

2009-03-20T19:08:00.003-05:00

Days with low humidity would provide a trip down this slide fast enough to prevent one from ever sticking a landing.

AMERICAN SLIDE

2009-03-19T17:29:00.005-05:00

This is a slide a kid could get hurt on. A rite of passage for thousands of kids. It is steep, high and has a step halfway up that wiggles when stepped on. It was this way fifty years ago and it hasn't changed.

When you could hustle up, slide down and run around and do it again you knew you were no longer a little kid.

SPRING'S PROMISE

2009-03-18T15:23:00.002-05:00

It's been feeling a lot like Spring lately with temperatures in the 60-70 degree range, and if you look closely there are many visible signs as well. It is a most welcome change.

A MIGHTY GOOD ROAD

2009-03-15T10:32:00.005-05:00

When I was a kid this was the "Rock Island Railroad" line. Hobos passing through would come to our house and my Mom would always give them something to eat. They knew where the sympathetic homes were. I don't know how long it's been since I've seen a hobo riding in an open boxcar.

FROZEN POND MIST & THREE CATTAILS

2009-03-13T21:16:00.007-05:00

It got very windy and the temperature plummeted overnight, from above freezing to nine degrees. The entire south shore was covered with ice encrusted weeds.

I never seem to notice when cattails disappear. The old ones stand all winter, then before you know it, they're new again.

YESTERDAY'S MUDDY WATER

2009-03-11T16:20:00.004-05:00

Yesterday the wind blew ripples across the water.

OLD FAITHFUL

2009-03-08T21:57:00.003-05:00

Standing by EverReady, you wouldn't think of them as off-road vehicles but the grain trucks spend a lot of time in the fields.

OPEN 24/7

2009-03-07T12:28:00.003-06:00

The door has been open season after season, wet, dry, hot and cold. Weathered indeed!

SUNSET IN MARCH

2009-03-05T21:05:00.004-06:00

Fence posts and weeds. Plentiful here in Iowa and some of my favorite things to photograph.

IOWA BARN

2009-03-04T16:31:00.004-06:00

I drive by this barn every day. I always think I should stop and photograph it before it's gone.

CORN CRIB SILHOUETTE

2009-03-03T04:43:00.004-06:00

MORE NIKON D90

2009-02-25T18:59:00.003-06:00

I am really liking this camera. Also getting used to Nikon's Capture NX2 Photo Editor. The camera comes packed with a sixty day trial version of it. After sixty days, I might know how to use it.

NIKON D90

2009-02-24T20:38:00.007-06:00

I have once again put the Canon AE-1Program on the shelf in favor of a new Nikon. I've upgraded to a Nikon D90. I've mostly been reading the manual and the "Nikon D90 for Dummies" book. I went out today looking for
something to shoot.

I love this camera!

CANON AE-1 PROGRAM

2009-02-13T20:31:00.009-06:00

The Canon AE-1 Program, that I bought in 1984 was the first serious camera I ever owned. It served me well for over a decade, until my daughter was born and I decided a Nikon N60 with auto focus would better serve my needs. I shelved my Canon and replaced it with a the Nikon.

Ten years later, I decided get it off the shelf. After a good CLA and light seal replacement, it was good as new.

I don't use any of my cameras as much as I would like, and this one is always a fun one to shoot with. We had a thaw here in Iowa last week and I took the Canon for ride in the country.

My niece Melanie was probably the person I photographed most with this camera. We were together a lot at that time and she was always ready to pose.

I took this picture of my computer screen while viewing Melanie's Flickr page.

FROM ANSCO SUPER REGENT

2009-02-09T13:41:00.001-06:00

ANSCO SUPER REGENT

2009-02-09T13:09:00.011-06:00

The Ansco Super Regent is actually an Agfa Super Solinette, made by Agfa Camera Werk in Müchen, Germany. They were produced from 1954 through 1960. I was also produced in 1954.

It is a 35mm folding camera, with a coupled rangefinder sporting an excellent Solinar lens. When I got this, the focusing ring was locked up, due to the lubrication used at factory solidifying, as is usually the case with these cameras. The method I used to unfreeze it was, to use a hairdryer to heat it, then carefully pry it loose with a screwdriver on each side while applying small amounts of lubricant to the back threads. Once it got loose enough to turn with my fingers, I did, until I wore a blister on my thumb from turning and lubricating so much.

Finally the thumb healed, the camera was tested and everything was perfect.

I used this camera to photograph our High School's, Marching Band road trips this past Fall. It folds up and fits nicely in the back pants pocket, allowing one to roll a ladder-platform out to the back 50-yard line. Those pics can be viewed here.

MIRROR IN A PHOTO

2009-01-29T22:03:00.002-06:00

If you were to stand under this picture and pivot half a turn to your left, you would look out the back door and see the very scene that is in this photograph, except now everything is covered in snow.

EXCELLENT HAT

2009-01-27T16:34:00.003-06:00

My "Mad Bomber" hat I got at Bass Pro Shops on vacation last Summer, mostly because I just wanted to buy something at Bass Pro. I'm glad I did. It is a magnificent hat. Warm? You Betcha!

WORN OUT CATERPILLAR

2009-01-26T19:12:00.006-06:00

I don't know whether this Caterpillar crawled here under its own power or was hauled and left here, but here it's probably going to stay until it's dismantled for parts or scrap.

THE OTHER DARKROOM WALL

2009-01-26T04:51:00.003-06:00

I turned the camera around and shot the wall on the other side of the darkroom. It's just a piece of sheetrock I nailed up, so as to have somewhere to put stuff like this. The rest of the room is just covered with black plastic.

DARKROOM MESS

2009-01-24T16:51:00.007-06:00

I have pictures stuck all over on all the walls of my darkroom. Most of them were test prints to determine correct exposure under the enlarger. Here is a sample of one wall.
The top picture shows a portion of the same wall along with a glimpse of my homemade pinhole camera.

THE WEATHER THESE DAYS & GOOD TIMES A COMIN!

2009-01-22T15:37:00.005-06:00

Winter Garden and Optimism From the Mailman.

HOTLINE & LONGING FOR BBQ

2009-01-21T15:18:00.011-06:00

Testing a Nikon Coolpix ultra compact. I like it. It's smaller than a deck of cards and takes pretty good pictures.

RAILROAD TRESTLE

2009-01-18T19:04:00.006-06:00

As a kid, many Summer afternoons were spent swimming and fishing under this railroad trestle. We caught lots of Carp, Suckers and Bullheads.

WINTER DRIVING

2009-01-17T15:47:00.005-06:00

Normal Winter Driving Conditions.

POST SNOWSTORM

2009-01-12T16:33:00.011-06:00

Taken with Truck Digi-Cam between snowstorms.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM

2009-01-09T21:32:00.005-06:00

I've taken shots of this bridge before, but never in the winter when the river is frozen. I used a little digital camera that I now call my Truck Digital Camera.

Happy Birthday Mom. I Love you!

WORKSHOP

2009-01-07T18:15:00.008-06:00

1: My workbench, taken with a pinhole camera on paper negative with 90 minute exposure.
2: My bandsaw with family graffiti.

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LEFT OVER SUMMER

2009-01-05T20:10:00.017-06:00

These were taken with a modified Diana Clone camera this past summer.

1: Sky Glider at Iowa State Fair
2: The Giant Slide at Iowa State Fair
3 Saddle in Horse Barn at Jasper County Fair
4: Alice getting a Corn Dog at Iowa State Fair
5: Cattle at Jasper County Fair
6: Jasper County Courthouse

I fitted an "Arrow" (Diana Clone) with a shutter from an Ansco folding camera, allowing shutter speeds from 1/300 sec. to 1sec. plus bulb, with a cable release thread and electronic flash sync. By gluing a filter ring to the front of the lens I can attach Kodak Series VI filters and lens hood.

BLACK & WHITE CHRISTMAS PHOTOS

2008-12-31T19:39:00.015-06:00

I always photograph Christmas with this side of my family in black and white with my trusty Holga.

For a look at last years Christmas, click here.

SOME FAMILY CHRISTMAS PICS

2008-12-27T10:36:00.005-06:00

Family together at Christmas. A wonderful thing!

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2008

2008-12-25T12:40:00.003-06:00

Merry Christmas from Iowa!

Santa on a Pole
Icy Truck
County Courthouse
Sundown Over Cornfield

THE OLD "ROCK ISLAND LINE"

2008-12-25T09:49:00.008-06:00

RAILROAD GRAFFITI

2008-12-24T17:40:00.007-06:00

Lots of railroad cars parked by the local grain elevator often display interesting graffiti.