...I took of the Statue of Liberty. It is a site administered by the National Park Service. We were on the Staton Island Ferry when I took it. I was at the Statue only once when I was a kid. Think we need to add this to our list. Still a good image to start Independence Day long weekend.
Sorry the post was late this morning. I am still not caught up and we came home last night to no power.
At a city park in Springfield, Illinois. We asked our waitress at a local restaurant where to walk in town and she told us about this park. It was very nice, several ponds, nice trails, woods and a very nice flower garden. And on the biggest of the lakes, these two Wood Ducks were out asking to be photographed. I was willing.
A different view of the Jefferson Monumnet in DC. It seems appropriate that there are tired tourists about - Jefferson was always receiving guests.
For the cog railroad to the top of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. It looks like it is hanging over the edge. It is, a little bit. The engine pushes the passengers cars ahead of it up the mountain. Mt. Washington was covered in snow, fog and wind three of the four times I have been up there, this was my rare beautiful day (but windy and very cold in August!
Who would have thought we would find this in Tupelo, MS. This is a butcher market restaurant where all the meats and much more come from specific local farms. We ordered some steak - you didn't get to pick what else came with it, for two. I did say, correctly of course, no cheese. We got this huge non-plate of food, it came on a cutting board. The meat was excellent but the rest was simply amazing. Cauliflower, purple and white potatoes, pickled onion and we ate everything but the wood. I highly recommend the Neon Pig, just order whatever meat you like and let them surprise you with the rest.
... it is a National Park Site. And it is really old. Hopewell Culture is near Chillicothe, Ohio. There are actually several sites and at one time many more sites stretched across a wide area. These were constructed between 100BC and 1000AD. Once again a great ranger with interest in the subject at least allowed us to be impressed with the scope of these mounds. They are 10 to 25 feet tall and were surrounded by mound like walls. Some were burial mounds, some for ceremonial use but no one has enough knowledge to be certain. Nor is much more known about these early inhabitants. They did not live in large villages but very small family units and, apparently, came together for events here on occasions. There is also a mathematical precision to the size, shape and placement of the mounds that was mirrored across many sites. And that is quite a feat.
Got an old fuel tank at a Coke bottling plant, make use of it. In Corinth, MS.
Gibson Guitars are made or at least some of them in downtown Memphis. They give tours for ten dollars. We went into this massive lobby and up to the clerk in the store and asked for two. He told us, "Nobody is working this week, that'll be $20." I asked if there was anything to see and he said, "Not much." We declined. Nice lobby though.
The first president born west of the Mississippi was born in this modest two room house in Iowa.
Enjoyed this eclectic place at the top of Beale Street in Memphis. The signs were unique and the orchestration of servers and line cooks was fun to watch. The two kinds of shrimp were among many choices and were quite good.
This site, if I am being honest, was a bit of a disappointment. It seems like less than the acre claimed by the sign and it was hemmed in by fast food places and houses as it sat on a busy street and bordering on yet another. There were two graves, a canon and a couple of signs. No parking. It looked uncared for and a rather sad place. This shot - you wander around trying to see what you might shoot, is of the flag and the sky because upward was the only way to really look.
At Vincennes Indiana.
You get the feeling every where here that you are being stalked!
On our first night at a Walmart was pretty perfect as the sun turned our trailer a warm pink. We had level parking, no noise, free wi-fi from the store and a variety of birds in the trees. And there was a Culver's frozen custard that we could (and did) walk too. This was in Illinois.
