Evening Light

Salute

Aspire

Playing with my wide-angle lens, 11mm.  Camera toys are the best!  :)

Memorial Day

for my father

Stop And Look Up

Beautifully Breezy

"I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down." - Spring

Woodland Palace

Francis Park, just northeast of Kewanee, Illinois, is a tiny gem in rolling farm country.  Woodland Palace was the home of Fred Francis, inventor and innovator, artist and poet. Born near Kewanee in 1856, he graduated from the Illinois Industrial University, Urbana, and then invented tools for the Elgin watch factory.  At that time employees received the royalties from their inventions, so he was able to retire at age 32. In his self-built home he was ahead of his time with such things as a water purification system and air conditioning. When Francis died he bequeathed his life's work to the city of Kewanee, to be maintained as a park and museum.

More info at http://www.illinoisadventuretv.org/index.asp?page=st&site=1199

Green Gables

Classy Classical Porch

Hosta Explosion

This Gives A Whole New Meaning To The Phrase, "The tractor died."

That's a turkey vulture sitting on the roof of the cab.


Here's lookin' at you, kid . . .

The View I Have

The View I Want

Little Brother

Thunder In The West

Elephant?

A birch tree.  River birch, to be exact, which is more robust and spreading than the delicate upright paper birches.