An Iowan Summer

American Barnstormers - do you know what a barnstormer is?

Balloons over the Mississippi 


Lacey-Keosauqua State Park "beach". I love it!


Lee County Fair grandstands with an awesome sunset!



I have been having a lovely summer in Iowa.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

(Ligeia)

(Ms. Found in a Bottle)
(The Premature Burial)

(The Fall of the House of Usher)
(The Masque of the Red Death)


My friend Andy Zornoza let me in on this amazing blog - A Journey Round My Skull - and told me to look up the Poe book with illustrations by Harry Clarke. I did, and now I am a smitten owner of Tales of Mystery and Imagination. It is a 2008 version of the original, and rare, 1923 one. It is really beautiful, and Harry Clarke's illustrations are so wonderfully spooky and fitting.

The original post at Journey Round My Skull is here.