Cards for holiday presents finished. Check!
23 December 2009
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01 November 2009
sunday afternoon, cont'd
The Mississippi.
Kind of love the graphic on their warning signs. That's exactly what a person falling off the side of a hill would look like, no?
12 October 2009
elkport revisited
Remember that little bank building that I blogged about last winter, from the once-town of Elkport, IA? I went back there this weekend to see if it was still standing... and it's not. In the above photo, it used to sit between the powerline post and the tree at the right.
The far building that is also missing from the left picture was the old high school. That building was in bad shape -- the roof had caved in -- and they were already starting to demolish it by the time I left in April. I assume that the bank was then next.
Shortly after I had posted the original photos back in February, I was informed (thanks, Jim!) that the bank building was actually used as the town Post Office for many years (I'm unsure if it was still the Post Office at the time of the flood in 2004, but I did see some letter boxes through the window, so it's possible).
The entire flood area is now a community park and campground. I don't know what kind of structural damage the bank building sustained (the outside walls looked pretty stable to my untrained eye), but it's unfortunate that it wasn't able to be saved and incorporated into the park.
The church is still standing, and looks in great shape.
07 October 2009
how to climb a tree
Step 2: Move upwards by any means possible.
Step 3: Look down. Why else climb a tree if not to see how things look from up a tree?
26 September 2009
13 September 2009
09 September 2009
screen shots
Who knew window screens could be so much fun? Not me. (Click on the individual photos to see a larger version and get the full effect.)
04 September 2009
i walked the red carpet
Not really. But there was a (short section of) red carpet, complete with (not necessarily short) LA movie people, in town tonight. The town being Elkader, IA, population 1500, the occasion being the new indie film 16 to Life, filmed on location twenty minutes away in McGregor (which, just to be properly thorough, has a population of 871). And that's the news.
28 August 2009
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18 July 2009
philharmonic in the park
Friday night New York Philharmonic Concert in Central Park.
Before we got rained out, that is.
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