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Rainy Market Day

May 11, 2010

Farmers' Market, at the Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, Wisconsin, September 13, 2008 panorama 

This panorama is a composite of several images.

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Gallery: Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square – Madison, Wisconsin, September 13 and 20, 2008, on the streets around the state capitol building


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Storm over Old Colorado

March 30, 2010

Old Colorado City, Colorado Springs, August 22, 2004

Old Colorado City, Colorado Springs, August 22, 2004

There was some sort of festival in progress, including vintage cars, the day that we visited Old Colorado City, along with dark skies and a storm brewing up over by Pikes Peak.

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Gallery: Cripple Creek, Old Colorado City, Manitou Springs, etc. – August 22, 24, & 27, 2004

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Downtown Madison

March 16, 2010

Farmers' Market in Madison at Wisconsin State Capitol, August 20, 2008

Farmers’ Market in Madison at Wisconsin State Capitol, August 20, 2008

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Gallery: Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square – Madison, Wisconsin, September 13 and 20, 2008, on the streets around the state capitol building

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A capitol market

February 24, 2010

Farmers' Market in Madison at Wisconsin State Capitol, 9-20-08

Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square,

Madison at Wisconsin State Capitol, 9-20-08


Gallery: Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square – Madison, Wisconsin, September 13 and 20, 2008, on the streets around the state capitol building

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Peppers at the Market

February 14, 2010

peppers at Farmers' Market in Madison at Wisconsin State Capitol, 9-20-08

Dane County Farmer’s Market on the Square
September 20, 2008

On the streets around the Wisconsin Capitol Building.


Gallery: Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square – Madison, Wisconsin,
September 13 and 20, 2008,
on the streets around the state capitol building

See more of our Image Galleries at Haw Creek.


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Fine day at the market

January 21, 2010

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Farmers’ Market in Madison at Wisconsin State Capitol, September 20, 2008

Gallery: Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square – Madison, Wisconsin, September 13 and 20, 2008, on the streets around the state capitol building

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After weeks of mostly wet weather, Halloween was dry — and we took a short road trip and hike.

Our first stop was at the Russellville, Arkansas, Downtown Fall Festival.  Unfortunately, my camera’s white balance was set to compensate for inside lighting and I forgot to change it to auto white balance.  So the composite images, even after post processing, are somewhat surreal, especially considering the holiday and all.

As always, click on any of the following to view a larger image

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Our next stop was Petit Jean State Park.  One of our favorite hikes is to Cedar Falls, the highest water fall in Arkansas — and the most photographed.

We figured that, with the recent wet weather, and rainfall totals way above normal, the falls should be pretty spectacular — and we were right.  We’ve been taking this short, but arduous hike, periodically since 1980.  We’ve never seen Cedar Creek with this much water in it.

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Road trip commentary and images

November 1, 2009

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Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square, Madison, Wisconsin
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Estes Park — September 5, 2009

Estes Park has long been a tourist destination.  The Stanley Hotel opened in 1909 and was built at at a cost of half a million dollars.  The publicity from the hotel’s construction resulted in a boom for the fledgling resort industry.

My first visit to Estes Park was in 1957, on an camping trip with my grandparents and uncle.  I was 5 years old and don’t really remember much of the trip.  The next time I visited was in the early 90s with my wife and two daughters.

While the town doesn’t seem to have changed much since that visit, it underwent a major reconstruction after it was heavily damaged from flood waters caused by the 1982 collapse of a man-made dam in Rocky Mountain National Park.

We spent most of Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend exploring the arts and craft fair and the shops in town.  Besides ice cream, we each bought a hat and Karen got a new purse as an early birthday present.

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Holiday weekend crowds

We were surprised at the number of people who had dogs with them.

Another interesting sculpture

Stanley Hotel lobby.

Labor Day weekend arts and crafts fair

Our Estes Park tradition - ice cream!

One of several bronze sculptures we saw in town

The Stanley Hotel

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Commentary and images from the road

image and information from September 5, 2009

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Delta County Fair

September 25, 2009

Delta County Fair, Colorado, 1940

Delat County, Colorado
October 1940

Russell Lee, photographer

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection
(Library of Congress)

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34205

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