Taking orders during the second shotgun deer season at Newhall Locker and Processing, Newhall. (Benton County)
Empty can jailhouse, Manning. (Carroll County)
Shucking at Shuckfest, West Union. (Lee County)
Swing set, Yorktown. (Page County)
Window, Kensett. (Worth County)
Deer at sunset by the road, near Chariton. (Lucas County)
A car in a lot at Maharishi International University, Fairfield. The university employs consciousness-based education, including the teaching of the Transcendental Meditation technique. (Jefferson County)
A wall of inductees featuring Dr. Norman Borlaug at the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame, Cresco. Dr. Borlaug, who grew up on a nearby farm, was an agronomist who led the development of high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties, considered an innovation in food security for countries where the varieties were introduced, including India, Mexico, and Pakistan. During his lifetime, he was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal. In college, he was a varsity wrestler for the University of Minnesota. (Howard County)
Iowa's only island town, Sabula. (Jackson County)
Iowa 80 truckstop, the World's Largest Truckstop, Walcott. (Scott County)
My Grandpa on the swing he would push my aunt on when she was a young girl, Mason City. (Cerro Gordo)
A boy looks for rocks in the Maquoketa behind the Blue Inn, Monticello. (Jones County)
National Balloon Classic, Indianola. (Warren County)
Nativity scene in Centerville. The set caused controversy when it was originally placed on the grounds of the Appanoose County Courthouse. It was later moved to privately-owned property one block away. (Appanoose County)
Hawkeye Point, the highest elevation in Iowa. (Osceola County)
North Raccoon River. The North Raccoon is the largest of the three forks of the Raccoon River, a tributary of the Des Moines River, passing through six counties. The Raccoon River is the primary source of drinking water for approximately 500,000 central Iowans. Concerns about water quality surround the river, which experiences large amounts of runoff containing nutrients like phosphorous and nitrogen; the Raccoon's watershed drains 2.3 million acres of land. (Dallas County)
Hobo Hawk at a table in the Jungle, Britt. He arrived early to set up for the annual National Hobo Convention, a gathering and celebration of vagrants since 1900. Hawk has been coming to the convention for 18 years, where he has, on and off, held the position of the Crumb Boss, coordinating food preparation in the Jungle. (Hancock County)
Shoes outside a door at the Blue Haven Hotel, Osceola. (Clarke County)
Feeding frenzy outside of Rocket Tavern, Portsmouth. The bar's owner, Ken, has lived in Portsmouth for 66 years. He says there used to be three gas stations, and now there are none. The grain elevator went bankrupt. (Shelby County)
Gary of Gary's Barbershop stands in the door of a castle at Oak Grove Plaza, Ida Grove. A wealthy local businessman liked the castle architecture and, almost 40 years ago, embarked on a process of developing several buildings in this style, including a skating rink and newsroom for the local paper. (Ida County)
Jenny in her aunt's yard with miniature donkeys Thunder and Lightning, near Delhi (pronounced Del-High). (Delaware County)
Tom Hanafan River's Edge Park, Council Bluffs. The park is part of a larger redevelopment site, called River's Edge, which includes an office building, hundreds of apartments, and condos. (Pottawattamie County)
Public swimming pool, Lake City. There are no lakes in Lake City. (Calhoun County)
The World's Largest Popcorn Ball, Sac City. The ball is thought to weigh more than 9,000 pounds. (Sac County)
A display at the Star Trek Voyage Museum in Riverside—the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk. (Washington County)
Iowa's Largest Frying Pan, Brandon. It is three inches smaller than the World's Largest Frying Pan in Washington State. (Buchanan County)
Mopeds near an athletic field at Atlantic High School, Atlantic. (Cass County)
French Icarian Colony near Corning. The Icarians came to the States hoping to realize a utopian communist society. Corning was the site of the longest-running, non-religious, egalitarian communal living experiment in the United States. (Adams County)
Davis County High School bowling team waiting to compete against Sigourney, Bloomfield. (Davis County)
A field next to Dollar General, on the southern edge of Larchwood. In smaller, rural communities, the arrival of dollar store chains can be both welcomed and threatening; in some cases, they are seen as filling a void, while in others, they run local grocers and retailers out of business because they are able to offer lower prices. A 2018 article stated that there were more Dollar Generals in the United States than McDonalds. (Lyon County)
Notes for Michael at a gas station, New London. Michael, a farmer, works between 60-80 hours a week, and deals with chronic pain from a degenerative disc disease in his back. In his wallet, he keeps these notes his wife and daughter wrote him while he was in a behavioral health services clinic being treated for anxiety and depression. At one point, he was taking eight different prescriptions totaling 23 pills every day for pain, anxiety, depression, and sleep. (Henry County)
Pammie dancing with her dad at her quinceañera, Iowa City. (Johnson County)
Tourists at the Field of Dreams movie site, Dyersville. (Dubuque County)
Peeling paint, Maurice. (Sioux County)
Boys and Girls Club of the Cedar Valley, Waterloo. The youth organization is located on Waterloo's east side, where a disproportionate number of African Americans live due to redlining. A 2018 report found that "No U.S. metro area has larger social and economic disparities along racial lines than Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Iowa." (Black Hawk County)
Roadside retail signs, Lamoni. (Decatur County)