This year, it struck me that despite living most of my life here in the Quad Cities, I’ve actually spent very little time on the Mississippi River. With its wide channel, broad floodplains, islands, and wooded bluffs it is the defining feature of the landscape, yet somehow, I have been so removed from it. PerhapsContinue reading “Exploring the Mississippi River Islands of Rock Island County, IL”
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Summer Storms and Silphium at Sunset
Perhaps nothing embodies Midwestern summer better than a July thunderstorm. There is something magical and humbling about watching enormous, rain-heavy clouds unleash their tumult and violence over the low, rolling hills and river valleys. To hear the distant booms and crashes of thunder gradually approach until it is directly overhead. To see sudden flashes ofContinue reading “Summer Storms and Silphium at Sunset”
Flora of the Quad Cities Region 