DEER & CARS

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

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

AMERICAN SLIDE

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

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

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

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

Yesterday the wind blew ripples across the water.

OLD FAITHFUL

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

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

SUNSET IN MARCH

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

IOWA BARN

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

CORN CRIB SILHOUETTE