A few yellow morel mushrooms I found this last week in Mills county.

Some more morel mushrooms I found this week in Mills county.

I saw this eastern plains garter snake when I was mushroom hunting.

Some 2012 morel mushrooms from Mills county, in southwest Iowa.

The constellation Orion, on his way to the southern hemisphere.

42 mm
ISO 400
F/2.8
10 seconds

In the last rays, of the setting sun…

A Question Mark butterfly on a pear.

A fox I photographed a few years ago.

2001-2012, RIP Hunter.

An old photo revisited with the Wheeler Lightroom preset Night Grotto II. All of the Wheeler presets are available Here. They’re fun.

The Nishnabotna river, south of Malvern. I used the Wheeler Lightroom preset Night Grotto for the color effect.

A blue jay with a peanut.

Fog droplets on a bald cypress leaf.

A female praying mantis on the front fence.

Snow falling out of the tree.

The best kind. 150mm macro.

A third of a second in the life of a nuthatch.

The Nishnabotna bridge on the Wabash Trace, south of Malvern. There are more Wabash Trace photos in the gallery on my main site - Photogallery

A Chicory blossom at Glenwood Lake Park.

An old photo revisited with Lightroom 3. I shot this in 2006 at Hillsdale cemetery.

Found along the banks of the Nishnabotna river.

Pokey and a stray cat.

A foggy morning at Mile Hill Lake.

My neighbors’ Christmas lights. It’s great to be shooting outside at night in late November and not be freezing.

A huge old wolf spider in my basement. They’re such cooperative subjects. They tend to freeze when they realize they’ve been spotted.

A yellow warbler nesting in my yard.

RAGBRAI riders leaving Glenwood on Sunday, July 24, 2011.

More RAGBRAI photos from Sunday morning in Glenwood.

It’s Pink Floyd !!!!!

Some more photos from the first day of RAGBRAI XXXIX in Glenwood on July 24, 2011.

I thought I would take a break from posting flood photos and share some images from the start of RAGBRAI XXXIX in Glenwood. More to come…

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The Missouri river levee south of Hwy 370 near the Bellevue bridge. July 2, 2011

The basketball court at Haworth park in Bellevue, NE. July 2, 2011

Looking south from the Sunset trail overlook at Waubonsie state park. 560mm seven shot pano. July 8, 2011

Floodwaters on the Nebraska side of the Missouri river. I shot this one on July 2, 2011.

Flooded farms & fields as seen from the Sunset trail overlook at Waubonsie state park.

The BNSF railroad levee west of Pacific Junction in Mills county. Railroad workers raised the level of the tracks by 5 feet and built a levee on both sides of the tracks. July 6, 2011

Looking WNW from the main overlook at Waubonsie state park in Fremont county, Iowa. July 8, 2011.

A six shot pano from the Sunset trail overlook at Waubonsie state park in Fremont county. The view is looking west toward Nebraska City. July 8, 2011

A 6 second exposure of the fireflies in the field next to my yard.

I found these morel mushrooms last week.

A Hairstreak that I’ve never photographed before.

Another shot from a few years ago that I never got around to posting here.

A Red-bellied woodpecker launches itself into the air from the feeding platform.

A Red-bellied woodpecker guarding the seed pile. A red belly will easily stand its ground against 3 or 4 blue jays. Sort of like a ninja vs. a gang of street toughs.

An old windmill, south of Malvern, near White Cloud. A lonesome spot, especially on a foggy day.

A foggy day last week along the West Nishnabotna river, south of Malvern, Iowa.

Here’s a couple of older shots of a Great Horned Owl I never got around to posting. I saw this owl four nights in a row during mid-August 2008. Just after dusk I would see it running around in my yard like it was chasing something. Mice perhaps, or it may have been looking for cicadas.