There's local news in this photo taken yesterday:  

trees are starting to turn color 

and

cornfields are not quite ready to be combined.

Bright sunshine this afternoon illuminated these fall colors...

Mississippi River between Marquette, Iowa, and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin...

I confess this scene was cropped out of a drive-by photo taken on the bridge.

Here's the Julien Dubuque monument
overlooking the Mississippi River...

And, another view of the riverboat, 

with the city of Dubuque, Iowa, in the background...

Went walking and looking for asters yesterday.  

Found mostly white ones like these...

 There was one clump of purple ones.  

Almost deleted this photo of them 

but then decided the curliques were cute...

  

Here's some photos taken recently in St. Donatus, Iowa...

There's a walking trail between the church and chapel.

Its been three weeks since the previous blogpost.  

Maybe you thought I flew away with the Thunderbirds.  

Here's a final photo from the summer season...

Green

Gold

Summer's

Old