A Summer Sight

It's always fun to look down and see the mix of colors and textures at your feet. This mushroom was pushing through the grasses and debris at the forest floor of the Ravensburg State Park near Jersey Shore, PA.
Date: 8/6/2008

Almost Time Again

A scene along the Cannon River and the Cannon Valley Trail in eastern Minnesota. Soon, soon, it will be time to get the bicycle out and head down the trail again.
Date: 9/21/2008

Arches and People

A hallway at the world-renowned Prado Museum in Madrid.
Date: 4/13/2002

Golden Fall

Taken last fall along the lake near my apartment. The golden sun and grass combine to make fall a brilliant time.
Date: 11/2/2008

Crossing the Moat

The bridge across the old moat into the fairy tale castle in Segovia, Spain.
Date: 4/15/2002

Easter- The Lord is Risen

Easter Sunrise in the Berea Moravian Cemetery, St, Charles, MN
Date: April 12, 2009

Almost Back

One more week and I should be back with more pictures. I have recently scanned a whole bunch of old slides (like the one to the right from 1971) and I still have many more recent digital pictures to post.

I promise.

Hiatus

Due to some personal stuff going on, I will not be posting new pictures here for a couple of weeks. Should be back in mid- to late-March.

Steps, Streets, Lines

In many Eurpoean cities you can find these kind of old streets and arches and lines. This one is in Segovia, Spain. Color, lines, contrasts all make for fun picture-taking.
Date: April 15, 2002

200 Years

Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota. July 2007

"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." Lincoln's Cooper Institute Address, February 27, 1860.

"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Chicago, Illinois" (July 10, 1858), p. 502.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." Lincoln's Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862.

"...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863.

Drapery Frames in the Palace

A series of drapes make a cascading hallway scene in the Palacio Real in Madrid.
Date: 4/15/02

Bridge Over Fall

Colors, water, bridge- A fall day along Cascade Creek.
Date: 10/19/08

Don Quixote Alive

Sundays in Madrid with a Don Quixote wannabe.
Date: 4/14/2002

Keeping Hope Alive

Statue of Henry Aaron at Miller Park in Milwaukee. It's not that far off.
Date: July, 2008

Sculpted Trees

Retiro Park in Madrid was a great Sunday afternoon place to be.
Date: 4/14/2002