Fall is such a beautiful time in Iowa. The way that the entire landscape seems to shift from the vibrant hues of greens from the summer to the muted shades of autumn just amazes me. One week, leaves and grasses are bright green, alive and vigorous. The next week they seem more subdued in various […]
Category: Weather and Nature
Musings made about the weather and mature in general.
Storms in the morning
This morning I was awakened from a deep sleep by a thunderstorm sometime around 430 or 445. I say “sometime” because I am not entirely sure when I was awakened. I did check my fitness watch but the time doesn’t stick in my mind. It’s a detail I can’t recall. But there were so many […]
Inspirations
My fiction is my own, but I can’t say that I am not inspired by a number of things I am inspired by the nature around me, As I watch a sunset or a sunrise, I try to think how it can be depicted in words that would convey the same picture that I see. […]
I have always done my best writing outside in the fresh air, whether it be sitting at the picnic table outside my first apartment building or in a canvas folding chair at a campsite or even under the tree in my front yard. I try to always keep some sort of paper and pen on […]