We are blessed around here to have several pairs of Red Bellied Woodpeckers visit us on a daily basis…year round. The last few summers we’ve had youngsters showing up too so that’s a really good sign of a happy and productive home.
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) gave us a nice show for awhile in the fall of 2024…this was one of the last shots I got of it over the Cedar River and probably the best one to show the length of the tail…it was a beauty. Fortunately the moon was just starting to come up and … Read more
The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train passed through Muscatine again and its always a treat to see it. I got the new drone up (second flight out of the box) and tried some panoramas with it. This one was super wide but it kind of shows the entire downtown area, and on this night the riverfront … Read more
Cedar Bottoms is an area north of where I live…not too far away…which makes it a handy go-to spot if the Aurora starts to fire up. We’ve had some beautiful nights in the last few months and I hope that continues for a while longer. I’ve been enjoying the space stuff so much lately that … Read more
Comet A3 Atlas, also known as C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) has been gracing our skies for the last few weeks. With the right conditions, meaning the darker the area, the better, some folks are getting a great look at this comet’s massive tail. Unfortunately we had some cloudy days during the peak viewing, and then a … Read more
Restored in 2019 by Union Pacific Railroad, the Big Boy 4014 is rolling the tracks again…this time coming through Iowa in early September. We saw this engine for the first time a few years back on its inaugural journey after restoration and it was great to see it once again. It always draws quite the … Read more