Despite still recovering from the last disappointing South Dakota trip, and a trip to Chicago looming, the forecast for aurora on Thursday was too good to pass up. I was initially considering going back to northern Missouri, but for an extra hour or so of dive time, I could get …

I thought I could see aurora again last weekend, and decided to drive back to Mitchell on Saturday.

On the way there, I stopped by the Great Plains Zoo again. Still didn't see the Pallas Cat, though saw the snow leopard this time. So that's a plus. After leaving the …

Last for the day of my list of KC places to photograph, after the KCTV Tower was a stop at the Scout statue overlooking downtown. By this point I was getting sick of the drizzle that hadn't let up the whole time I was out. I grabbed a few shots …

Going through my list of KC places to photograph, after leaving Swope Park, I decided to head towards downtown, the Scout statue specifically, since I knew that gave some nice views of downtown, including the kind of worthless ferris wheel. And navigation just happened to take me past the KCTV …

Also on my list of KC places to photograph was some nice railroad bridges going through Swope Park, one over Gregory south of the Zoo, the other over 63rd, north of it. I see these just about every time I go to the zoo, which is a lot, and have …

On Sunday I got restless and decided to go out and about and photograph things around Kansas City I've been wanting to, but never have. It was raining when I decided, but it was forecasted to stop soon after I left (ominous foreshadowing).

First stop was looking over the Kansas …

After leaving the Great Plains Zoo and heading back towards home, in Iowa I saw a sign on the highway for the Loess Hills State Forest. Following the signs off the highway, I got closer to the bluffs from the Missouri River and a spot that had recently been burned …

On my way back from Mitchell, SD I stopped at the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls, SD. A friend told me there was a baby Pallas Cat there, so figured it would be worth it.

Naturally it was rainy that morning, and saw neither hide nor hair of the …

On the evening of Saturday the 14th the NOAA Aurora Dashboard gave pretty good odds of there being a good aurora the following day, with the view line almost reaching down into Missouri, with a chance of it being overhead as far south as northern Iowa and Nebraska.

Looking at …

Naturally, Cohost announces they're shutting down right after I start posting photos there. And now I need somewhere else to do that. And that somewhere is now here.

Stock Pelican with a highly modified Flex theme. Which still needs more modifications done. I need to style the links on the …