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windmill and scrap overgrown with bindweed

The remains of my grandfather’s garden and orchard, once locally famous for it’s tomatoes, strawberries, sweet corn and apples.

Milkweed pods split open with exposed silk

Milkweeds are the sole source of food for Monarch butterfly larvae and one of my favorite native Midwestern plants.

Branches of spreading oak tree

Autumn trees