Wednesday, March 31, 2010

90/365 - Hammock Season!

Me in a hammock, over a big pile of snow (and a snowblower)
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Today, I hung up my wonderful camping hammock for the first time and relaxed in my back yard. Never mind that there's still a big pile of snow under me... it was 75!

89/365 - Sarah at the Mill

Sarah standing against a graffiti-covered wall, with light and shadows.
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Sarah, relaxing in the industrial ruins of the old Quincy stamp mill -- also a favorite site for graffiti "artists" and paintball players.

88/365 - Red Stone Leaf

A leaf on a red cement walkway.
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A leaf, on cement made with local red Jacobsville Sandstone. There are also some red cement roads here (and oddly enough, green ones).

Yep, I'm catching up -- Sarah visited early this week, and I promise I took a photo each day. I just haven't posted them all yet!

Sunday, March 28, 2010

87/365 - Window

Sarah peeking in a window of a very old house.
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One thing I see often in the various abandoned / forgotten / decaying flickr groups, is a shot of a dusty, decaying room with light streaming in through a window.

How about Sarah looking in, instead? :)

(Taken, interestingly, at the Paavola Wetlands nature preserve, which ate up an old Finnish farm which is going quickly back to nature.)

86/365 - Pepsi

Sunset over Lake Superior.
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An old-fashioned Pepsi can, in its native habitat -- the middle of nowhere! (Technically, near the old Huron mine.)

Friday, March 26, 2010

85/365 - Spring Sunset

Sunset over Lake Superior.
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Your basic sunset, over Lake Superior, in the spring. Normally there would still be huge piles of lake-crunched ice on the shore, but our early spring has taken all of that away. Luckily, it's given me beautiful watery textures instead!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

84/365 - A light side, and a dark side...

A stone ruin in the sunlight.
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The Quincy Mine's No. 4 boiler house, in the late afternoon light. I was up at Quincy looking for a 9-sided shape, and found this instead. However, as you can see (if you look at the right parts!), the number nine still worked its way in to the photo.