Looking Back to Iowa

Someone told me the best view of Iowa is through the rear view mirror. So as we leave Iowa, we have to look in the rear view mirror and share some of the other sites I did not include in earlier blogs!

Throughout our travels through Iowa on our weekend trips, we stopped to document some of the many beautiful barn quilts along the highways.







Although we had too many hot, humid days here, it has been a great place to watch nature in action!
We had an upclose look at a firefly in our bedroom, we watched the corn grow a foot a week.

It was just green stalks when we arrived, and now there are tassels on top and corn forming!

We watched baby birds learn to fly,

and watched the grasshoppers hatch! You know when you have been at a place too long, the spiders and bugs think the RV is theirs! Seriously, we watched a grasshopper leave these eggs on our window. They were yellow when she laid them. During the week that followed, they turned pinkish, then were orange before turning white. When they turned white, out came 64 tiny orangish colored bugs... looking more like baby lady bugs than green grasshoppers! Within two days, they had traveled to the bottom of the coach and then were gone!

We enjoyed all of the "weeds" along the highways and found out they really are flowers once you get to know them.

So, we leave Iowa after a very colorful and pleasant time!