Jul 12, 2025
Okoboji, Iowa, United States. (2019)
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Okoboji, Iowa, United States. (2019)
Kenue Park in Dickinson County, Iowa.
The first and third photos are of whorled milkweed (Asclepias verticillata) at the top of a sandy, rocky hill.
The second photo is a low-lying prairie that was completely covered with grey-headed coneflowers (Ratibida pinnata).
I can’t believe this is a real ad I got
Spirit Lake, Iowa near Orleans, Iowa
August 2024
Mama Deer with Baby Bambi!
Okoboji, Iowa, USA
Drew Dau
Postcards from Snagglepuss
Wrapping up some rather fascinating diving down Iowa way
ON WEST LAKE OKOBOJI, IOWA: With the Minnesota State Fair not that far off, it was getting time to wrap up our summer diving escapades with the Three Wolves and the Divin' Wolf Pups, no doubt rather fascinating, to the point of refreshing even!!
And to make things especially fascinating, the Hair Bear Bunch decided to join along with us for a final day of diving escapades.
"Nonetheless," Hair Bear observed, "you have to consider that we bears like our diving to be of the breath hold sort, more or less!"
To which Bubi chimed in, "You have to count on the clyde, just holding the breath and just seeing the wonder to be had underwater, the sheer fascination of it all!"
"I assume Bubi was saying that diving couldn't be more fascinating to us bears!" responded Square Bear.
"And no doubt the bear is right!" chimed in Hokey Wolf, more or less the lupine dive leader, even allowing for Loopy De Loop's charm and sophistication tending to be of Quebecoise origins (and such all the while excusing his desire to challenge lupine stereotypes of the sadisto, vicious sort of wolf) and Mildew Wolf's legendary wit and snark.
"Snagglepuss," Huckleberry Hound chimed in, "I just have to hand it to those wolves and bears for being in such interesting company."
"Of the underwater sort," saith I. And with that, down we went into such remarkably clear and divable waters in such an unusual locale as northern Iowa ... diving to a depth of some 50 feet, at which point we were led into a "friendship circle" underwater, just the eight of us in all, and what a mystic sort of fascination came over us.
Not to mention arousal and sensations between the legs for some reason or another!
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Towards the evening ... while the farewells with the lupine contingent may have been on the bittersweet side, the Hair Bear Bunch, for some reason, decided to take in the camper life during the Minnesota State Fair forthcoming.
"The company couldn't get to be more interesting," Huckleberry Hound remarked, prompting Hair Bear to remark that, even with a state fairgrounds as the venue, "such couldn't hold a candle to Camp Volkswagen--which is what we call our bivouac by the side of such lakes we camp besides during our road trips and hold orgies for two or three nights beside same."
"Yeahhhhh," Square Bear chimed in sheepishly, "just to feel the ursine-type LOVE, and do I mean LOVE!!!"
"Apologies there, Snag and Huck," Hair Bear remarked, "but Square Bear is bound to get a little too ahead of himself on occasion, especially during the bear mating season and imagining the sort of love discoveries we're bound to go through!"
"So, at any event," Huck remarked, "just to give you some semblance of directions--"
At any rate, next time around will begin another year at the Minnesota State Fair with yours truly ... and with such interesting guests as the Hair Bear Bunch, even!
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Took the kids to the lake today!! 100 degrees and humid AF. The water felt so good and it wasn’t super cold!
The Abbie Gardner Cabin in Okoboji Iowa has vermin. #verminme #jamieburmeister #streetart #okoboji #sculpture (at Abbie Gardner Cabin) https://www.instagram.com/p/B22ZZjLhzOf/?igshid=ek9xxpe929qz