It's that time of year again, Autumn. It's my favorite time of year. October usually brings warm, sunny, skies and cool nights, some with a touch of frost.
And it brings beautiful leaves, especially in the NE corner of the state. This year, the colors are peaking one to two weeks earlier than normal, I've heard. And they might not be as brilliant as some years, both due to the exceptionally dry summer.
We plan to find out Wednesday, when we drive up and down the hilly, twisty, back roads to Prairie duChien, WI.
The most recent glacier missed the NE corner of Iowa and the SW corner of Wisconsin. Therefore, it didn't smooth out the hills and valleys left, and since eroded, by the next-to-the-last glacier. That leaves all those hills for us to enjoy today! Because of the steepness of the hills, much of the land can not be farmed with corn or beans so grass is grown. That means there can be lots of pastures and cows; dairying is big in the area.
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| Jordan's Grove Baptist Church near Central City, Iowa |
And just to prove that I have an eye for color, how about this house in Central City!
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| Colorful home in Central City, Iowa |
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Thanks to some medical appointments, I'm still in central Iowa - enjoying the color changes - but not the dust from the combining in the fields across the road from the RV park or the below freezing nites! Hopefully will leave Iowa Oct 15 and head south. Happy and Safe Travels to all that will be hading south in the next couple of months.
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