Missing headlight, Columbus Junction, IA

 A missing headlight on the old, degrading car.

Degrading car and trailer, Columbus Junction, IA

 An ancient car and trailer, slowly being reclaimed by the earth by a trail in Southern Iowa.

Cone flower art, Iowa City

 Pictures of varied cone flowers etched on a translucent door.

Flower mural, Iowa City

Mural of flowers on a city underpass.

Drying soy, Johnson County, IA

 Soy drying in the fields for harvest.

Evening swamp, Iowa City

 Red evening clouds reflecting in the swamp.

Dried out swamp, Iowa City

A shallow swamp run dry in autumn, exposing great rents where the channels hide beneath the surface.

Carved out trail, Iowa City

 A trail carved roughly through a stand of fast-growing trees between field and swamp.

Mountain biking trail, Coralville, IA

A curving mountain bike trail going up and down with complicated switchbacks to make the very best of a rather small total change of elevation.

Brontosaurus tree, Lake MacBride

 This big vine-covered old dead tree looks like the head of a brontosaurus to me.

Marsh plants, Lake MacBride

Marsh plants, likely some sort of lily pad, standing above the scummy water by the edge of this dam-created lake.

Splash pad tree, Solon, IA

Into the junction of the fountain trunk.

Splash pad tree, Solon, IA

 Thick green glass leaves on this fountain-tree.

Splash pad tree, Solon, IA

Another, this one more a conifer of sorts.

 

Splash pad petals, Solon, IA

 Near us in Solon, a newly-build splash-pad features several tall fountains that look like trees.

Feral oregano

The pebbles around our children's swing-set have been invaded by a large and spreading patch of feral oregano, its origin predating our occupation of the house, now kept in check by occasional culinary raids.

Day lily leaves

 Thick bending leaves of growing day lilies.

Ferns

 Cool clustered ferns beneath our apple tree.

Hanging purple flowers

Another view on this cluster of dangling purple flowers.

Hanging purple flowers

 Purple flowers hanging their heads from the top of long and spindly stems.

Preparing to bloom

 Another angle, better exposing the rounded clamshell of the cupping leaves.

Preparing to bloom

A dark flower preparing to bloom within its protective cup of leaves.

White cluster flower

 Small white clusters of flower on this low-spreading plant.

Rose bud

 Swelling bud of another beach rose flower, just before it springs to bloom.

Beach rose

A large beach rose, fluffy in layers upon layers of ruffled petals.