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How the donut man from Bunkers Dunkers in Jefferson helped land RAGBRAI XXXVI for an overnight stop here!
Our hometown of  What’s the deal with the black & white saddle shoes?  Click here for the story of our farm in Greene County, Iowa. Here's looking at life at Simple Serenity Farm  It's been quite a year for gardening at the farm, and here are some photos of the late bounty Follow the link below for additional details. Click here for larger format Earlier photos in this series 
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The route for the 2008 RAGBRAI -- that's the Des Moines Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa -- included our Greene County seat of Jefferson as an overnight stop on Monday, July 21. More than 20,000 people came to Jefferson, pop. 4,600, that night. Read the amazing story here about a chance encounter three years ago in Florida, where our vacationing local donut king Randy Bunkers warmly greeted a stranger who was wearing a RAGBRAI T-shirt. The fellow happened to be RAGBRAI director T.J. Juskiewicz -- and in the summer of 2008, hurrah! RAGBRAI came our way!
There’s the annual Cooper Prom (for all ages), concerts, basketball, suppers, ice cream socials and people coming through all the time on the Raccoon River Valley Trail. Here is the story on the little community in Greene County, Iowa, that is now home for the Offenburgers.
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"Poggensee's Postcards"
some preparing for winter here, others ready to head south "Bird photography keeps me humble," photographer Don Poggensee said when he checked in after taking pictures the weekend of September 27-28 around his hometown of Ida Grove in northwest Iowa. "The birds don't pose, and are certainly flighty, and it takes a great deal of time to capture a decent image." He got some dandy images on his recent outing, as you'll see below. "The Northern Flickers are increasing in numbers, as a lot now come down here from up north," Poggensee said. "We have some here year 'round, but this time of year, they seem to be everywhere. This flicker was in Moorehead Park outside Ida Grove, eating Virginia Creeper berries." He said the little brown bat "is not really a bird, but it does fly, and is just looking for a place to overwinter. Bats get a bad rap, but do mankind a great amount of good, eating insects and pollinating fruit." The barn swallows are now heading south, but Poggensee did manage to find this group of them in Ida Grove early on Sunday morning, September 28. And the photos of Great Blue Herons were all taken around Ida Grove, as the birds were getting ready to head to warmer climates. They stay ahead of the freeze they know is coming to rivers and other streams. "It's a beautiful time to be outside," Poggensee concluded, in an understatement.
The gorgeous photographic views of Iowa and its people which are appearing as "Poggensee's Postcards" on this Internet site are the work of photographer Don Poggensee of Ida Grove in northwest Iowa. Poggensee has been studying and working in both photography and aviation for nearly 40 years. His favorite places to shoot include Alaska, the Arctic and Prince Edward Island, but Iowa has provided him with his most frequent scenes and subjects. He estimates he has over 200,000 shots of Iowa in his photographic library. He was corporate pilot for 30 years for Gomaco, the Ida Grove company that manufactures road-building equipment used around the world as well as classic trolley cars. He is retired from corporate flying and now manages a digital photo lab for Gomaco. He's also involved in a framing and matting studio, as well as a stock photo business called Wind Rider Images. His photos have been published in over 60 magazines, in about 20 books and on many calendars, greeting cards and posters. He also writes an occasional guest column here on this Internet site. You can e-mail him at donpog@netllc.net
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