Daycare butterfly, Iowa City

Butterfly, resting peacefully on signage at my younger daughter's daycare.

Pig truck, Iowa

Pig trucks are a frequent feature of highways in Iowa: they have a very distinctive structure of many-segmented metal sides with frequent oval gaps, and when one peers through you often see their many restless inhabitants.

Whipped Cream Lincoln, Iowa City

A very different Lincoln looks out somewhat dubiously in pink in the midst of the delirium of the "Whipped Cream" ballet.

Mr. Lincoln's Hometown, Springfield, IL

Staid, dignified, industrial: Mr Lincoln boost Springfield from the side of its gigantic municipal coal plant.

Sunset, Coralville, IA

Another nice complex deep-sky sunset.

Neighborhood deer, Iowa City

Deer dappled by light and shadow just up the hill from our house along the street, wandering as though not quite sure it meant to be here just now.

Driver bear, Iowa City

Just chillin', waiting for their parent to come back from the grocery store.