August 1, 2015: Welcome sign for Grafton. The cemetery, to the right, has paving stones engraved with the names of residents from a century ago.
I already posted what I thought was my 29,000th picture, but then I realized I hadn’t put in a two-day trip from June. Instead, a photo from Grafton makes the mark. It was taken in the middle of a trip around north-central Iowa to visit a dozen more towns: Nora Springs, Plymouth, Rock Falls, Grafton, Carpenter, Mitchell, Colwell, Alta Vista, North Washington, Ionia, and Frederika.
Photo 30,000, it turns out, has already been published: It’s the photo with “R is for Rake”, taken Sept. 29 during my circumnavigation of the state. It, too, is on the roof of Iowa, about an hour away from Grafton, in the opposite corner of neighboring Winnebago County.