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The just-past-full moon peeked in my window, demanding that I wake up.
AT 4 a.m.??!!
Well, sure, if I wanted to be in the woods before first light. Isn’t that what the “experts” say about turkey hunting?
I slipped into the portable canva...
This long-bearded tom turkey taunted us by strutting near our house several days before the hunting season opened.
Turkeys gobbling, spring ephemerals blooming, spring peepers peeping. My senses are overwhelmed.
No time to soak it all in!...
This robin was part of a flock that feasted on frozen crab apples from a tree in Elkader.
Dusk was settling over our prairie hills on a recent record-warm evening.
We relaxed on the deck, savoring our first outside meal of the season.
Ro...
“One swallow does not make the summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.”
Snow geese settle in for a landing alongside white-fronted geese on the water at Hendrickson Marsh, northeast of Collins, Iow...
Fun . . . or serious . . . you decide . . .
Our monthly get-togethers, when a few dozen Iowa Writers’ Collaborative members chat virtually with paid subscribers, usually aren’t as chaotic as breakfast on a snowy morning at my bird feeder....
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Semi-retired outdoor/conservation writer, photographer, lecturer. Live in the boondocks of Clayton County near Elkader. Active in volunteer conservation efforts/issues. Enjoys time with wife, Margaret, and grandkids.
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