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
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
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
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