Colorful face, Woodpecker Trail, Coralville, IA

 Another pseudo-cubist face on another pillar.

Colorful face, Woodpecker Trail, Coralville, IA

 A marvelously colorful graffiti face below a bridge.

Howdy stranger, Woodpecker Trail, Coralville, IA

 Cheerfully goofy graffiti face on the side of a bridge girder.

Clear Creek, Coralville, IA

 Wide slow creek by the side of the trail.

Tree fungus, Coralville, IA

 Close-up on the irregular honeycomb-like structure of the fungus.

Tree fungus, Coralville, IA

 A big fluffy fungus with a honeycomb structure on the side of a tree.

Woodpecker Trail, Coralville, IA

Another section of the trail, going right along the creek.

Woodpecker Trail, Coralville, IA

A long, long boardwalk over a marshy section of the trail. Boardwalks or log bridges have always felt super-special to me on a trail: as a kid, I would look forward to them above all else when hiking.

Woodpecker Trail Bridge, Coralville, IA

 Nice narrow wooden bridge over a little stream gulley on the trail.

Woodpecker Trail, Coralville, IA

Mountain biking trail through the woods by a creek. The woods here have a very park-like feel, with low undergrowth between widely separated deciduous trees with broad-spreading branches.

Waterworks trail, Iowa City

 Trail around the waterworks park in Iowa City.

Bug-carved log

 A big transected log, filled with holes from many little bugs. Given the way the holes appear, I think they were carved before it fell.

Woodsy trail, FW Kent Park, IA

This trail in FW Kent Part is one of my favorite spots to go walking in the woods nearby.

Marble shoot

 And this one focusing on the patterns of the structure itself.

Marbles on the shoot

Another view on another part of the marble train.

Marbles on the shoot

 Another perspective, sorted blue on blue.

Marbles on the shoot

 More layers and sorting of our younger daughter's marble art. 

Marbles on the shoot

You or I might think of one or a few ways to play with marbles in a marble shoot, but a small child will think of other ways entirely. I found this toddler artwork quite beautiful and remarkable.

DO NOT DISTURB MAGIC, Muscatine, IA

I know there's some reasonable explanation of this sign and it must be just an acronym, but I'd really prefer to live in a world in which we must avoid disturbing magical works based on GPS.

Horse toy, Muscatine, IA

 This was something I'd never before seen, but which made immediate sense to me: these horses have a giant soccer ball available for them to play with in their field.

Backyard crossing, Muscatine, IA

 Somebody has set up a decorative railroad crossing in their back yard.

River trail, Muscatine, IA

 Rising trail along the banks of the Mississippi River.

Purple flowers, Muscatine, IA

Beautiful bundles of purple blooms.
 

Manatee mail

I don't know why these folks decided that they would have manatee mail, but I'm in love with it.

Deer hoof

Close-up on the hoof, showing its shape and surprisingly wrinkled structure.

Deer leg

Dessicated deer leg, found in a wildlife preserve.
 

Chalk and pollen

 Another angle of composition on the pollen beach around these island chalks.

Chalk and pollen

 Pieces of sidewalk chalk, ringed by dried up pools of pollen.

Boundary trail, FW Kent Park, IA

One of the lovely long trails along the boundary of the park, forming a perfect straight channel between encroaching lines of bushes.

Vine-laced bridge, FW Kent Park, IA

 Another view of the bridge's vine-laced span.