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This gray squirrel was evidently not nice enough earlier in the year since it doesn't appear that Santa gave it the mittens and boots it was wishing for on Christmas day. That will teach it a thing or two about stealing sunflower seeds at bird feeders😁.
The big skies of the Midwest make for dramatic effects, both early morning and late evening. I loved it.
Iowa Northern Railroad Train BUWA is seen shoving westbound on the CN in Waterloo, IA. The train had just dropped a healthy cut of interchange traffic in CN's Waterloo Yard and is shoving to clear West Waterloo before proceeding back to home rails towards Bryant Yard. Starting February 13th, the STB has allowed the CN to begin taking over Iowa Northern's operations, marking the end of yet another shortline. Photo taken January 26th 2025.
This photo of Enterprise captured at sunset, Iowa was taken on NE 46th Street, Polk County, Iowa just a few hundred feet north of NE 94th Avenue. Enterprise is an unincorporated community just east of Ankeny with a few homes and a large farm co-op.
Developed using darktable 3.6.0
A perfect combination of Red Barns and green trees on a snowy winter day Sony A7III Sony 24-105G lens
Recently made a short roadtrip to Des Moines. And while I had seen the Capitol from the highway I hadn't been inside. I knew it would be impressive but it's really a huge treat for the eyes. Highly recommend stopping in if you're in the area!
A pair of Chicago and North Western SD40-2s roll an eastbound freight through Otis, Iowa on a nice fall morning in 1995.
The recent Union Pacific takeover hadn't placed any negative crimping of the North-Western style on the motive power front; that would soon change.
Iowa has one thing going for it, some amazing sunsets. Adding a drone lets me get above houses to see the whole thing when it's amazing like this. 20+ shot panorama.
With the haze of a Canadian wildfire filtering the sunlight, Rock Island E6 630 was posing for pictures during a fundraiser in Manly, Iowa.
Hopefully the 630 will be made operational and get some mainline time.
Iowa Interstate train BICB (Blue Island, Illinois, to Council Bluffs, Iowa) is rolling through the siding meeting its counterpart CBBI at Anita, Iowa, on April 12, 2016. GE ES44AC No. 516 leading BICB is painted in a special Rock Island-inspired paint scheme celebrating IAIS’s 30th Anniversary.
Without Judas Iscariot there would have been no kiss, no arrest, no trial before Pilate, crucifixion or resurrection and thus no Christianity (at least as we know it today). He was integral to the whole plot.
And if Luke and John are to be believed, Ol' Scratch himself, Satan the Dark Lord possessed Judas. So was Satan in on the plot to jump start a new anti-Satan religion?
Did God and Satan get together and hammer out the details on how the former would come down as the Son and the latter would possess his pal, get the Son crucified and then hang out in Hell for a few days and then come back thus redeeming the world?
Since Judas was maybe the most important person in Christianity, apart from JC, shouldn't he have been sainted? Or is everyone just cool with playing along with the idea that he's the big bad?
This is basically a rhetorical question. It doesn't really matter. It's not like Christians follow Jesus' teachings anymore. Honestly, they kinda never did. At least as a whole.
Maybe the Church is the real Judas.
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'Bright Side of Life'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Film: Kodak Vericolor III; x-07/1997
Process: DIY ECN-2
Iowa
July 2023
Two Iowa River Railroad units depart Ackley, Iowa with a string of cars for the Pine Lake Corn Processors plant near Steamboat Rock on May 3, 2024.
Iowa 80 is the world's largest truck stop, located along Interstate 80 off exit 284 in Walcott, Iowa. Set on a 220-acre (89 ha) plot of land (four times larger than an average truckstop)—75 acres (30 ha) of which are currently developed—the site receives 5,000 visitors daily, and features a 67,000 sq ft (6,200 m2) main building, parking for 900 trucks, and 15 fuel pumps, with each fuel pump also having another dedicated pump for dispensing bulk diesel exhaust fluid. Four-hundred and fifty employees staff the megaplex.[1][2] Wikipedia
I took this in the first Iowa cemetery I visited this past summer. I didn't spend a lot of time in the state, though I have explored it pretty well a few years back.
Though the grave looks lonesome and solitery, I was feet away from a busy two-lane, with trucks and cars passing by at an almost constant rate.
I remember spending quite a lot of time setting up this shot. I wanted something fitting for the disarray of the stone and grave itself. Placing the camera at an angle (I'm almost always so careful about levels), and through the use of movements, I exaggerated the oddness of this little space.
The camera was high above it and I stood on tip toes to see through the glass.
When I pulled this shot out of the tank, I was immediately taken by the negative. I try not to judge the final photo by how the negative looks - I do my best not to even look at them. But this time around, I was excited to see what I got.
And what I got was this .
Hazel Waite lived for only seven months in 1900. Her parents, Malden and Evelyn, had two other children who lived incredibly long lives. While all were buried in Iowa, Little Hazel is the only one in this Sioux County cemetery.
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'But Not For Me'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 8/90mm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/8; 1/200sec
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Iowa
July 2023
Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
There are times while traveling the back roads in Iowa, I find views and landscapes of simplicity . . . and beauty!
Pristine blue skies, puffy clouds, native prairie grass and this island caught in the middle. "It's not what you look at that matters, It's what you see!" - Henry David Thoreau
Copyright 2017
The Rio Grande Ski Train was leased for the University of Iowa's 2004 football season to provide an alternative way to get to Iowa's football games.
The shuttle service was a good way to help keep the streets clear of drunk-ass college kids pre and post gaming during Hawkeye games.
For over 15 years, the Hawkeye Express passenger train has been a part of the Hawkeye football gameday experience. An average of 3,700 fans boarded the train in Coralville and enjoyed a 10-minute trip to Kinnick Stadium each game during football season.
Covid-19 killed it off.
I've always thought this was one of the more attractive farmsteads near where I live. You can see from the silo and the cattle feed bunk that this used to be a cattle feeding operation. It's now just a row crop farm.
Passed through Iowa City this morning on a return trip from Chicago and got to snap a few shots of bald eagles
It's the first summer without the Chicago and North Western as now-former CNW SD60 8011 rolls east through Calamus with the new bosses' C30-7 2528 and a repainted SD50 5086 (CNW 7026) along the old North Western main across Iowa in 1995.
The 8011 went on to the lease fleet after Union Pacific was through with it and the trusty SD60 eventually found itself at Juniata Shops in Altoona, where Norfolk Southern rebuilt it as SD60E 6928.
Iowa Interstate's NSDMPE-02, a loaded haulage NS grain train from Des Moines to Peoria, skirts the northern edge of downtown Davenport along 5th Street and begins turning south to cross the Mississippi River into Rock Island.
September 3, 2021
The Iowa State Capitol, commonly called the Iowa Statehouse, is in Iowa's capital city, Des Moines. As the seat of the Iowa General Assembly, the building houses the Iowa Senate, Iowa House of Representatives, the Office of the Governor, and the Offices of the Attorney General, Auditor, Treasurer, and Secretary of State. The building also includes a chamber for the Iowa Supreme Court, although court activities usually take place in the neighboring Iowa Supreme Court building. The building was constructed between 1871 and 1886, and is the only five-domed capitol in the country. Source: Wikipedia