Irises

 Deep purple irises, spreading their floral wings.

Wilted pink flower

 A wilted pink flower, hanging down and getting ready to drop from its supporting shrub.

Departed flowers

 A spider-like cluster of hanging styles, their formerly surrounding flowers departed and dropped away.

Tree tunnel on the Hoover Nature Trail, Oasis, IA

Trees leaning over like a tunnel along the Hoover Nature Trail.

Flowing corn, Oasis, IA

And what were those pipes all pumping? Corn! The dried grains are seen here flowing in a roaring blast to fill up the back of this 18-wheeler truck.

Pipe and wires, Oasis, IA

 Zoom in on a pipe for pumping grain, framed by a boxy set of wires, which I believe are used for increasing its structural integrity.

Pumping complex, Oasis, IA

Set of pipes and machinery for pumping grain back and forth in a silo complex in Oasis, Iowa.

Cinderblock pile, Hawkeye Wildlife Management Area, IA

Rubbled pile of cinderblocks in a wildlife management area, origin and reason for being there unknown. It seemed to me they might have been an intentional piece of fill used in place of stones on the side of the causeway through the swamp. I just like their shapes and shadows, though.

Long hot road, Hawkeye Wildlife Management Area, IA

A long hot road through the Hawkeye Wildlife Management Area, mud baked dry and hard in the late summer sun.

Power lines at dusk, Iowa City

Power lines behind a house at dusk.

Silhouetted steeple, Iowa City

Lacy steeple of a local church, standing out against the skyline.

Mystery hemisphere, MacBride Nature Recreation Area, IA

 Close-up on one of the two mystery hemispheres, showing its lumpy broken and organic texture.

Mystery hemispheres, MacBride Nature Recreation Area, IA

Two lumpy textured off-white hemispheres, found split open on a picnic table. Is it a fungus, a plaster cast, a meringue? I decided not to touch it and so do not know...

Dry spillway, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

At this time in Autumn, the spillway was nothing but baked dry dirt through the yellow-green banks on either side.

Spillway bridge, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

Since this is a lake in Iowa, it is, of course, not natural. I'm sure there must be some, but every lake I've seen in my time here is a dammed watercourse of one sort or another. This little wood and metal bridge goes over the concrete spillway in its earthen dam.

Bird roost, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

 Roost for raptors standing bare at the edge of the lake.

Experimental tower, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

 A tower of bowl-sized green funnels, collecting some sort of data for a project.

Insect tracks, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

More stacks of folded insect tracks.

Insect tracks, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

 Insect tracks exposed when the bark of this tree was stripped away. I love their wandering oxbow lines.

Tall grasses, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

 A field of blowing grass.

Tall grasses, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

Grasses with tops like fans.

Tall grasses, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

Another view of grasses with their tops like bending brushes.

Tall grasses, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

 Light shining through tall dry grasses by the lakeside.

Aster bug, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

A little bug foraging for nectar in the asters.

Asters, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

 Another view of clustered asters.

Asters, Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

 Asters by the edge of the lake in all their purple Autumn glory.

Lake Iowa, Williamsburg, IA

Walking on a trail around the edge of Lake Iowa.

Windmill, Marengo, IA

 Another, closer shot of a windmill in the fields of Marengo, Iowa.

Wind farm, Marengo, IA

 I just love the sight of wind farms on the open fields. Such a picturesque industrial view.

Cable truck, Iowa City

Truck with giant spools of some sort of cable, going down the highway. I love seeing the giant wooden spools like this. When I was a little kid, we had a discarded on in our house as a coffee table, which was one of my favorite things in the world for some reason.