Orlan Love

2 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Orlan Love

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Orange fish bad. Many anglers think that. I don’t. I’m indifferent to the common carp. I don’t have much to do with them. We leave each other alone. They won’t chase the moving lures I typically fish, and I don’t leave a gob of worms or sweet corn-laden hook sitting where a bottom feeder is likely to find it.

2 weeks ago | communitynewspapergroup.com | Orlan Love

QUASQUETON — The Cannon family, whose name has long been synonymous with John Deere equipment in Buchanan County, has donated a rare, impeccably restored tractor to the Quasqueton Area Historical Society. The 1959 John Deere Model 330 was one of 18 tractors collected by the late John Cannon, the longtime proprietor of Cannon Implement on Highway 150 two miles west of Rowley.

1 month ago | thegazette.com | Orlan Love

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A robin prospects for food March 6 in a Quasqueton lawn. Though most robins don’t migrate, their return to lawns after hiding out in thicker winter cover is a welcome sign of spring. (Orlan Love/correspondent) A male red-winged blackbird, newly arrived Monday in southern Buchanan County, displays his gaudy epaulets and hails spring with his optimistic conk-la-ree.

1 month ago | thegazette.com | Orlan Love

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. About the time you thought you ought to be out tapping maple trees it got too cold to even go outside, let alone for the sap to flow. During those five days of unrelieved subzero wind chills (Feb. 16 to 21), about all you could do is look out the window and marvel at the disappearance of snow through sublimation.

2 months ago | thegazette.com | Orlan Love

A rock bar stretches for more than 50 yards below a bridge over a Buchanan County creek on Feb. 9. (Orlan Love/correspondent) The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. It was Super Bowl Sunday, and I needed a fix. For several days I’d been inside buildings or vehicles, and I needed some exposure to nature for my personal well being and (for the sake of others) to keep a grumpy old man from getting grumpier.