Mariposa

 sweet sight of summer

 sommerfugl

 

butterfly

Iowa is bordered by rivers. the Missouri River is the western edge and the mighty Mississippi River is the state's eastern border and in between many  beautiful rivers and streams make up the  watersheds and create valleys and ridges and plains. Northeast Iowa carved by glaciers and the  waters left behind is a jewel of fertile soil and delightful springs and streams. this is land that creates richest farmfields available, land that grows the flowers to support the pollinators, our honeybees and butterflies, it is land with fish in streams for the eagles to feast upon. this is the heartland bursting with life and that life all depends on the precious wonder that is water

“Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.” Jane Austen

“Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.” - Santosh Kalwar

“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”  Hermann Hesse

“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.” Khalil Gibran

“Water is the driving force in nature.”  - Leonardo da Vinci

“Life in us is like the water in a river.” Henry David Thoreau