Posted on 10/25/08 at 08:22 PM
Last weekend Charletta and I travelled out to Iowa to visit her parents and the weekend before we visited Plow Creek Farm in Tiskilwa, Illinois. Here are some of photos from the autumn countryside across the two states.
Barn in the fog across from the Kalona Cheese factory in Iowa
Jesus is the answer: a driver and his milk truck at the Kalona Cheese factory
Horse and buggy at Stringtown grocery down the road from the cheese factory
Windmill and tree in the fog across from Stringtown grocery
Charletta and her mother gathering hickory nut
A hickory nut still on the branch
A tree on the edge of a cornfield on the Erb farm
A combine and wagon at work on the Erb farm
Sleds await the first snow fall on an Amish farm
Dew droplets on a dandelion
On Saturday morning in Iow we awoke to find the ground covered with dew soaked cobwebs
A bee on a flower at Plow Creek farm
Wildcat canyon at Starved Rock State park near Utica, IL
Pine and yellow leaves at Starved Rock
Can anyone name this insect?
The Osaka Japanese garden back in Chicago
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