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Designed by Minoru Yamasaki, designer of the World Trade Center on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
Our Westie McGregor in his Halloween costume. He says he should get a treat after Embarrassing himself in front of the neighborhood dogs.
This is my submission for "I *swear* I am never doing *that* again" in the January 2009 Monthly Scavenger Hunt.
Now, you might suppose I am guessing that the gentleman on the right is thinking "I swear I am never doing that again" but that is not why this is my submission.
Both of these lovely gentlemen are something of local characters/living legends in our valley. One is my neighbor and one I have met several times over the years... but I have yet to have a proper conversation with him when he is sober. I've heard when he's sober, a nicer man you could never meet.
He tends to go on a 'bender' every 3-4 weeks which will last 3-5 days. During such times, the local gossip mill has it, his dear wife will not allow him in the house.... so he drifts around the valley landing on the unsuspected looking for more drink and food. Yesterday evening, he landed on my doorstep.
The conversation started legitimately enough... he has commissioned me for some photography work (yay me!!) but then slid into 5 hours of silly drivel (on his part, not mine I hasten to add!!)
So, I *swear* I will never do *that* again!! I will never actually invite him in when I know he's on one of his benders!!
Lake Mcgregor at sunrise, this pretty little lake feeds into Lake Tekapo, South Island, New Zealand.
DM&E train 271 rolls through the Agri-Bunge grain facility and under their barge loader at McGregor, IA on a cold and snowy day along the Mississippi River.
A old feed mill covered with corrugated tin, sits between the highway and the railroad tracks along the Mississippi River in McGregor, Iowa. One the side of this building is a sign which reads "W.A. Myers Fuel and Feed"
Tea Leaves, 1909
William McGregor Paxton (American, 1869–1941)
Oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 28 3/4 in. (91.6 x 71.9 cm)
Gift of George A. Hearn, 1910 (10.64.8)
In a windowless parlor permeated by soft light, a dreamy atmosphere, and the sounds of silence, two elegant women pass the time by doing very little or nothing at all. Paxton hints at a narrative, but he asks that the viewer invent it, recapitulating the ambiguity of Vermeer's paintings, which he admired. Paxton often depicted refined women—like his patrons' wives and daughters—at leisure in handsome Boston interiors of the sort that they, as keepers of culture, would have decorated and occupied. By equating women with the precious aesthetic objects that surround them, Paxton echoes the spirit of the novelist Henry James, who portrayed women as collectible objects in The American (1877) and Portrait of a Lady (1881). Paxton's works also accord with pronouncements by the sociologist Thorstein Veblen, who observed in his Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) that a woman's "conspicuous leisure" signaled the wealth of her father or husband.
CP 7010, 3084, 1900 and six cars(Van Horne
Assinidoine
Sam Steele
Bonfield
Selkirk
Sanford Fleming).
CP 7010(SD70ACU)
McGregor, IA