Photo of the day: Sylvan Island

I’d heard about this little island just off the Illinois side of the Mississippi but had never been there. It just so happened that the bike path I was on before work this morning took me right to it. I didn’t have time to do any deep exploration, but I definitely will come back — armed with plenty of mosquito repellent.

Photo of the day: Buzzer midge (Chironomus plumosus)

I captured this macro with my iPhone during a walk this morning. On the phone it looks a lot sharper than it does here. Kind of disappointed.

Photo of the day: The Channel Cat

These water taxis serve the Quad Cities area, ferrying people from one spot to another along both sides of the Mississippi River. I was in the office today and captured this shot from my 6th-floor window.

Photo of the day: TARDIS sighting.

This was on a pole directly outside the little downtown Rock Island cafe where I had breakfast this morning.

The cafe:

Good coffee, by the way, and the best chorizo breakfast burrito I have ever had in my life. So far.

Photo of the day: Welcome!

I took a lot of pictures today, so it was hard to choose, but most of them were just photos of someone else’s artwork, so I didn’t think they should count. I’ll add them below, though, as “also-runs.”

Bonus photo: Rufio trying to be cute.

Photo of the day. “Be kind.”

This is on the wall of the closed restaurant across the street from my neighborhood pub. It’s a good message.

Like father like son.

When I lived in a small house on the edge of the woods, I set up an art project. I took an old table, chair, and a computer that had died, and set it up in the forest so I could take photos of it over the course of a year.

Railroad Lake, Iowa.