Elevation of Pilot Knob Township, IL, USA

Goin' Gray

Shadow Portrait

flickr Sunset

Franklin Cemetery

American Legion and Boy Scout color guard walking the track at 2016 Washington County Relay for Life. #nashvilleil #relayforlife #colorguard #americanlegion #boyscouts #flags #oldglory #washingtoncountyil #southernillinois #southernil #soill

Where Grand Avenue turns into Grand Road, Northern city limit, Nashville, Ill. #nashvilleil #ondragontime #southernillinois #soill #618 #country #rural #backroads #highway #illinois #ontheroad #enjoyillinois

Intersection of North Washington, North Grand Roads, rural Nashville, Ill. #nashvilleil #ondragontime #southernillinois #soill #618 #country #rural #backroads #highway #illinois #ontheroad

Found this guy on landscaping next to a parking lot. Bluejay, night hawk, crow, Canadian goose? Dead. Cool looking though. #nashvilleil #washingtoncountyil #wildlife #deadthings #southernillinois #southernil #soill #ontheground #death #decay #thisbirdisno

Field and clouds behind Lighthouse Community Church, Nashville, Ill., a few weeks back. #nashvilleil #washingtoncountyil #southernillinois #southernil #soill #618 #lighthousecommunitychurch #agriculture #fields #farming #soybeans #illinoisagriculture #dra

Illinois, Nashville, Tin Shop

Little Ray of Sunshine

Little Ray of Sunshine

Little Ray of Sunshine

Little Ray of Sunshine

Swirling flock of birds, by the office, just after sunset. Is it called a flock for all birds? These are blackbirds or maybe starlings or some other songbird. If they're corvids other than crows, can I still call it a murder? And are blackbirds even corvi

Sidewalk scrub plants, morning light. #nashvilleil #washingtoncountyil #soill #southernill #southernillinois #sidewalks #ontheground #atmyfeet #morninglight

One of Roy and Heather's (and Liam's!) piglets. Visit to their house to show the kids the animals they've got. #piglet #babyanimals #nashvilleil #washingtoncountyil #soill #southernill #southernillinois

Mill Ponds, Nashville Memorial Park, looking northwest. Taken Sunday, Kids Fishing Day, put on by the Washington County Sportsmen's Club (believe it or not, there are more than 130 kids with their families all around me). #pond #water #reflections #nashvi

Sidewalk hole moss, Nashville, Ill. #mossy #moss #sidewalks #ontheground #atmyfeet

Tiny white and yellow flower in the office's side yard. I don't know what these tiny, very common flowers are called, so I polled my coworkers. Kathy said "I've seen them before..." Brent said they're called "Ludacrises". He specified that it was spelled

Tiny purple flowers, out at the state park. Hard to take clear photos when you're getting toddler tackled while you try. #flowers #closeup #ontheground #atmyfeet #washingtoncountystaterecreationarea #washingtoncountyil #soill #southernill #southernillinoi

Rock on the pavement, in front of my house. Kids just pick up stuff like this when we go out on walls, then they leave 'em around the yard. Yep. No way on earth that's going to end up with me fastballing one of these through a window after I run it over w

Old lightbulb and wiring, back stairway at my office. #nashvilleil #washingtoncountyil #soill #southernill #southernillinois #oldfashioned #worn #textures #rough #atwork #theoffice #abovemyhead

Illinois, Nashville, State Theater

Cool beetle thing running around on the woidchipa at the T-SJ playground. Some bigger kids got it up onto a stick to show my kids...who were both amazed and scared of it. #bugs #creepycrawly #insects #beetle #ontheground #atmyfeet #playground #nashvilleil

Wet brick moss, out at the Historical Society. This was last week, I'll bet it's even wetter now! #mossy #bricks #colorcontrast #redandgreen #vegetation #springinillinois #nashvilleil #washingtoncountyil #soill #southernill #southernill #southernillinois

God, I do love fishscale pattern paving. Little bit of vegetation coming up between the bricks. Just before I took this, Dave, the Historical Society president (and unofficial yard worker) told me what this was and now I've forgotten. To me, it's a nice t

Lilith, a very-friendly office cat at the local animal shelter. #officepets #catsofinstagram #friendlycat

Illinois, Nashville

Antique typewriter keys, Washington County Historical Society meeting room. #nashvilleil #washingtoncountyil #southernill #southernillinois #soill #618 #washingtoncountyhistoricalsociety #antiques #typewriter #keys #oldfashioned