Yeah, Iowa, were I was representing PLU at a conference of Lutheran Colleges. Actually, it's wasn't as dull as I expected. Lots of interesting and fun people back there who didn't take themselves too seriously.
In front of the student dorms, where we stayed, was this wonderful sawgrass prairie with wonderful wildflowers, all elbowing each other for the top part of their canopy. The sunflowers won out. But the wildlife was wonderful, if you just had patience. Deer, fox, pheasants, goldfinches (the state bird), cardinals (very shy), and rabbits.
And I decided to go on the canoe trip. Not much wildlife except for trout and turkey vultures, and lots of swallows, all in their mud hut condos that where stuck to the top of chimney-like slate formations that rose up from the river about 200 feet above our heads.
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