RFP Presents Iowa Spring Tractor Ride and Antique Tractors © Gerald Rowles 2007 Please Don't Copy These Photos Without Formal Permission. [click on thumbnail for larger image - some distortion may occur due to compression of larger files]

By chance, I passed by the Saylorville Lake Visitor Center about midday, Saturday the 12th of May. Surprisingly, there were about fifty antique, mostly restored tractors as well as a few smaller contemporaries. The drivers, mostly farmers / tractor aficionados had stopped for a picnic lunch. I chatted with them briefly, and began to leave for home. On the way out of the park though, I decided to position myself to capture the passage of this charming assembly. And as they passed and waved I felt proud to be in what is often called flyover country. I thought to myself, "This is the American heartland; its farmers and patriots; its mothers and fathers; its soul."

	Antique Tractors Photographed at Johnson's Antique Tractors (563) 212-7432 Miles, Iowa