countryside we went cycling this morning the tomatoes are slow this year Trying a new lens - 70-300 VR Nikkor Trying a new lens - 70-300 VR Nikkor crabapples ii crabapples i cow designs the aging sunflower a magnificent sound spectators spectators Where's Waldo? fixing a motor fried fruit on-a-stick...... What is so Midwestern as a sunflower? I stayed too long at the fair weeds on the shore the runners sshhh... duck is sleeping not likely to ripen memory, illusion China - National Celebration motel pool portulacas and a broken bat? diners from the glory days of Standard Oil caboose caboose - detail caboose - detail where I went to school A much-beloved aunt. at the nursing home what was once a prosperous lumber yard house in town - well-restored the Congregational Church the sadness of motel halls discards downpour summer evening ii summer evening i daylily, evening daylily, evening another eight-petal daylily