Our plans to camp flexed to a day trip to SE Iowa. On small roads circumnavigating Iowa City’s Football mania, we wound our way south. Bands of rain rolled through driving the temperatures down to 50 degrees and sometimes 48. It’s been this way almost since autumn began in September. A radical change from the [...]
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Autumn in Iowa
Posted in Autumn, Iowa, rain, tagged Autumn, Cantril, Iowa, shopping on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Summer Haze
Posted in Iowa, summer, tagged Iowa, summer on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The early morning sun tries to burn off the accumulated haze of several days. We might actually break the 80 degree barrier for one of the first times this year.
Geological "moraines" and Meteorlogical "more rains"
Posted in floods, Iowa on June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good Grief, Charlie Brown! What started as lovely, clear, mild quintessential “high pressure” weather just right for draining and drying, has converted to thunderstorm and tornado warnings…again. From the week-long geological workshop where we studied differences between alpine and continental glaciers, we participants can more easily differentiate between features found in both types of glaciers. [...]
Silence is Golden
Posted in 1-3-07, caucus, Iowa on January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Day After is a dream. The sun is bright, temperatures mild for January in Iowa, and the phones are silent! You’d think the candidates could figure out that people would either be going to caucus or not at the late date of mid-afternoon of the day of caucus and that no recorded phone call [...]




