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This is Porch Cat. She is an orange and white tabby that adopted Seth and I six months ago. The first time I saw her she was asleep in the d...

Body drop. Written jan.25 I see black garbage bags on the side of the road a lot. It costs money for trash pickup and people burn their garb...

I grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. Oak Park did not have bald eagles. Oak Park mostly had robins, cardinals and tiny brown birds. Occasionally...

(I got new specks and can see again. Everything is so clear, perfect...awesome.) Iowa got blasted with an ice storm. A serious blast. Power ...

I've been having strange dreams lately. I was at an art opening. It was late. I was alone. and I was nervous. As I wandered through a ma...

This is a photo of a twelve foot tall pile of elk and mule deer antlers, skulls, held together by balance and barbed wire. Rachel, Matt, Bri...

obligatory snow post. Well, its my first winter in Iowa. Everyone Iowan told me to dread the snow. I told them to not worry about me because...

Ode to a Dead Bumble Bee While i ran across the lawn You bumbled in the clovers Carelessly, You played matchmaker Among the pretty flowers. ...

I have a trail camera attatched to a tree on our property. It collects photographs of wildlife around our Iowa home. I have pictures of all ...

cadaver dogs. In Chicago they band together, roving packs of angry, canine youths. They roll into the suburbs and disturb my mother's ne...

This is a sculpture made by the prolific and talented A.J Fosik. If i prayed to a God, I would pray to this Bear-like wall God. my goodness ...

My new art. four color silkscreen, robert hardgrave, awesome. i'm going to hang it above my fireplace.Now i just have to get a fireplace...

Its getting scarier, friends. Every morning i wake up, hop into my mud covered Honda and drive down my dirty, dirty, dirt covered road. It i...

When you live in the middle of nowhere and visit the middle of somewhere it is an eye-opening vacation. I used to compare DeKalb to Chicago....

I've had a bad morning because I killed something. I knew it was going to happen sooner or later, things keep running in front of my car...

I have a pest problem. It's harvest time in Iowa which means farmers are driving around in their combines collecting crops...mostly corn...

This is what the world will look like when we are gone and animals reclaim their space. Josh Keyes is nostradamus... http://www.joshkeyes.ne...

This is a squirrel. Some people think they are disease ridden tree rats...which is sort of true, some of them carry fleas that harbor the bu...

My family came to visit me the other day. Here's what happened : 1. we shot pumpkins and made them explode. 2. we ate chinese food at th...

My love affair with the cow began in Canada when I met this happy little fellow. I had never seen a baby cow up close and personal until thi...

Steve Seeley's paintings have intrigued me since I was first introduced to his work three years ago at the Packer Schopf gallery in Chic...

The first time I chipped my tooth was on a sugar daddy lolipop. I was at P.F Chang's. It was horrible and I never wanted it to happen ag...

This is a snow goose migration Rishika and I witnessed in Nebraska. The geese come in an all white color phase and blueish color phase . Ear...

These are the mule deer does that Rish and I spooked In Idaho. As a midwesterner, I'd never seen this many deer in a group before. White...

I love traveling. I love seeing the animals hang out by the side of the road. These photographs of Elk were taken by Rishika "Rizzle...

*I just ended my career as a dairy farmer. I enjoyed the job like a fat kid enjoys cheetos...however, it takes money to feed a fat kid and I...

Call me Farmer Jane.  I have a new job, I work with Holstein Cattle babies.  I mix their milk in a bucket, change their bedding, give them w...

Today was a big day for ol' Jane, I saw the American Gothic house that resides in my new town, Eldon. Eldon, Iowa is a small town. It...

I am about to drive to Iowa. To honor my transition from Illinois Resident to Iowa Resident I have chosen a photo from the lagoon that speak...

This has been a summer of firsts. This bluegill is one of them. Most kids have a photograph of themselves with the first fish they caught......

This is a bullfrog tadpole that has started to grow its legs. Isn't it a horrible little monster but pretty neat at the same time? It ta...

Seth and I are in the process of moving out of our apartment. We are moving to Iowa. I've lived in DeKalb for three years. I've live...

*The first Bullfrog I've ever caught. Isn't he handsome? When I was Nine I thought it would be easy to catch a frog. I wanted to ca...

This is my pet mini-claw crab. He loves to dance for his girlfriend who chose to remain on the other side of the aquarium while I shot this ...

*this is an angry crayfish video. I decided that I am not ready to write a post about tadpoles today. Tadpoles are complex and strange cre...

This is probably the last post that will specifically deal with goose poop. But like I promised in my last post, "I am going to post so...

I’ve lived the lagoon for three years and have enjoyed it as a place to sit and watch the ducks and geese eat pond scum on many an occasion....

It's stinky, its covered in goose shit, and at one point there was a six foot alligator living in it's muggy water. It's Dekalb,...