Category: Outdoors

Welcome to the chilly fall temperatures of Autumn! At least here in Iowa, I’m starting to feel like we skipped entirely over Fall and are moving quickly toward Winter. With record rainfall in many parts of Iowa (and an entirely unexpected snowfall long before the leaves had finished changing colors!), it’s feeling like my traditional…

Nothing local quite says “the magic of summer” to me like Farmer’s Markets. Sure, I’d argue that beachfront views might feel more seasonal to me, but that’s cheating: I said local. While Des Moines has a dauntingly huge Farmer’s Market every week that regularly ranks top in the Midwest, Cedar Falls still has a relaxing…

With temperatures dipping into the frigid digits, I thought it’d be time to showcase some of my favorite images from one of my favorite summer activities. I have to take the memories of the warm, happy season where I can get them, right? One of my favorite things to do in new cities is explore their…

So, it’s March – yet there’s still a ton of snow on the ground. Maybe I need to try photographing next year in March, but my memory doesn’t lead me to remember snow sticking around quite so long in years past. This week, though, I was taking a 3-hour drive, and the trees looked so…