6.6.10

my first post! thank you for visiting. this will hopefully be a weekly-ish thing and i'm shooting for an entire year of blogging.

i love doing this because it reminds me of how i spent a lot of my childhood. no, my parents didn't let me wander the roadsides of iowa, but i did spend most of my summer days roaming around our small town where i always seemed to end up at the "crick" among the rocks and weeds, often with my childhood soulmate, meredith. there were so many adventures... building forts, snake hunting (no joke!) and just enjoying being outside. i loved those carefree days. i often worry that my daughter won't get to experience the freedom that i did - a childhood with no video games, cell phones and other gadgets and the ability to leave the house in the morning, come back for lunch and then be gone all afternoon - copious unstructured time to imagine and explore.

anyway, enough of my musings. so here is my first series of photos. these were all taken in a ditch, a bit west of north liberty, ia