Nathan L Smith

@nlsmith.com

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Gardening, historic building maintenance, pet photos, infrastructure observability, JavaScript, graph theory, jokes. Fiscally anti-fascist, socially anti-fascist. Pacifist Gemini. South Amana, Iowa

Bees and butterflies on coneflowers
Panicum vergatum
Monarda fistulosa
Agastache foeniculum
Elymus hystrix
Rudbeckia laciniata
Campanulastrum americanum
A pressed mayapple leaf and an actual ready to eat fruit
Monarda didyma
A garden
Pumpkin flower
Rubus occidentalis
Carya ovata
Ribes missouriense
TOUCHOO NETWORK TO FREEDON IOWA DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IOWA IOWA DOT SATER I SMALER I CUSTOMER ORDER FIGHTING SLAVERY - AIDING RUNAWAYS John Brown's Last Iowa Trip 1859 john Brown, with twelve men, women, and children escaping Stavery from Missour, plus his own men, stopped one-half mile south of Marengo at the farm of Draper B. Reynolds February 23-24, 1859. The Pennsylvania born Reynolds, now age forty-nine, had come to lowa in 185S. Brown's winter ourney had besun two months carly when they rescued enslavnd persons at three farms it southwest Missour then radualy moved north throw Kansas and lebraska before enterine low on February 4th. After difficult days of cold and snow, their passage across lowa fortunately came during a mild winter period. From here Brown's party traveled through lowa City to Springdale, a recent Quaker settlement in southwestern Cedar County. On March 10th they boarded a rail car at nearby West Liberty heading to Chicago and then on to Detroit where two days later they crossed by ferry to freedom in Windsor, Canada. Ten months later Brown was dead. The former Kansas fihter had been captured and hung after he and his band (includin four lowans) on October 16, 1859 carried out a failed attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Vinginia. The bold action ignited great controversy and became a catalyst leading to CMil War. Brown's action as part of Kansas Troubles The Kansas Nebraska struste arose after 1854 over whether the ternitories would become Slave or Free States. ho made western lowa an important staring area for Free State forces and aiso for those enand in aidin fustves escape enstvement in the foretront of ants avery and Underround Hailrod auvy curt these years were persons of Congregational, Quaker, Baptist, and Wesley Methodist faith. The nortward fant of persons from enslavement in western Missounoften broug them test to a rural lowe hamiet knownas mil Bend, ust upriver from Neoraska Cay, …
Mr. Toilet Man is Mel Brooks. The 1000 turd old man
Cat on afghan
Veronicastrum virginicum
Lysimachia ciliata
A very old white oak
Campanulastrum americanum
A tiny beetle stops off for a sip of Ceanothus americanus
Liatris pycnostachya
Dog with flowers
Cat on a bed
Gideon from Gravity Falls
Monarda fistulosa and hererocallis in a garden
Chicago field museum garden
GOOD GOSH! cure for pain MORPHINE
Consolida ajacis
Eutrochium purpureum
Stachys palustris
Gus the dog and Bel the cat laying on a blanket
A big fat garter snake sitting on a raspberry branch
Monarda fistulosa
A sign for a mini mall thing that has a THRIF STORE
Flowers of various colors
Solanum tuberosum
Platycodon grandiflorus
Pink flowers
A cocoon on a branch yet to be born
Red and yellow day lily flower
Vicia villosa
Hordeum jubatum
Verbena stricta
Cool garden street design
Acer saccharinum
Yellow and white roses
Empty lot with weeds
Opuntia humifusa
Roses in Madrid
Various flowers at La Granga España
Fagus sylvatica
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Ilex Aquafolium
Punica granatum
Albizia julibrissin
Tilia platyphyllos
Koelreuteria paniculata
Achillea filipendulina