Veteran's Circle-Wyuka Cemetery

Have a Wonderful Memorial Day Weekend

Our Flag

There are many flags in many lands,
There are flags of every hue;
But there is no flag, however grand,
Like our own Red, White, and Blue.

Mary Howliston

Garden Cart

This garden cart is used the Lincoln Parks Department. Looks fun to drive, no?
It was parked at the Lincoln Children's Zoo.

Colorful Mural

I've wanted to take a picture of this mural for sometime, but there were always cars parked in front of it. Finally saw it with no cars....

Mellow Yellow

I posted the last couple of weeks in Mellow Yellow from my other blog, Nebraska Birding. Since I don't have anything for that blog that fits Mellow Yellow, and since I haven't done anything to promote this blog, and since I have a perfect photo for this blog for the meme...well here we are! (hows that for a run on sentence?)

This photo was taken on the campus of Nebraska Wellslyan University. There is no signage on it, so I have no information about the sculpture. I kind of like the lines and angles of it.

St. John's Reformed Church

St. John's Reformed Church

Sculpture at Sunken Gardens

About the sculpture

"Reveille,” created by retired surgeon Dr. Wayne Southwick, who now lives in Connecticut. The word “reveille” means “a signal to get up out of bed.” The name was chosen because the woman in the sculpture is modeled after his wife, Ann Seacrest Southwick, getting their children out of bed. “Reveille” depicts a life-sized angel blowing a trumpet and was cast in Italy. Dr. Southwick originally is from Friend, Nebraska, and is a graduate of the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Ann’s grandfather, J.C. Seacrest, was instrumental in donating the area to the City in the 1930s to create the Sunken Gardens. Dr. Southwick also has work displayed at Yale University, the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney and First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Sunny Morning

Tiptoeing through the tulips daffodils at Sunken Gardens.

Oh-La-La, A 1956 Thunderbird

After my short visit to Holmes Lake yesterday morning I proceeded to the library. Parked in an out of the way spot was this beauty. It's a 1956 T-bird. The 1956 model is the only model of the series from 1955 to 1957 that had the spare tire mounted outside. There were only 15,631 T-birds produced in 1956.

Holmes Lake

Imagine the dee-dee-dee of a killdeer, the occasional muffled quack of a mallard drake, a slight breeze, and temps in the low 60's, and you are where I was this morning when I took this photo.

Smokey Bear

Stairwell

The lines and angles in this photo appealed to me.

Tractor Musem

A tractor outside the Tractor Museum

Larsen Tractor Test & Power Museum

The Lester F Larsen Tractor Test & Power Museum

In 1918, Nebraska farmer W. F. Crozier from Osceola in Polk county bought a tractor. When that tractor—the Ford B— (our mascot and not made by the Henry Ford Co.) didn’t live up to its advertised claims, he and fellow State Senator Charles Warner decided to ensure that all farmers would get a fair deal when buying any model of tractor sold in Nebraska.

Under their leadership, the Nebraska Tractor Test Law was passed in 1919 to ensure that tractor manufacturers met their advertised claims of tractor performance. At the same time, the legislature established a facility for tractor testing on the campus of the University of Nebraska.

The Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory is known around the world as the leader in tractor testing and is the only one of its kind in the United States. The Lester F. Larsen Tractor Test & Power Museum is housed in the original Nebraska Tractor Test facility on the East Campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

The building was declared an historic landmark by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and dedicated as a museum in 1980.

A tour of the museum (pdf) The tour includes a photo of the building taken in the 1940's including 1940's vehicles. Kind of neat.

Windmill On East Campus of UNL

East campus of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln was originially called the farm. Most of east campus is still dedicated to agriculture, though there are some other types of academic pursuit available, such as the College of Dentistry.

This windmill is behind the Animal Sciences Complex.

Another Bike Race Photo

A couple of guys arriving to watch the bike race in the post immediately below this post.

Bike Race

Yesterday afternoon I went over to the East Campus of University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Maxwell Arboretum is located there and I wanted to photograph flowers. I intended to go to another part of the campus to take some more photos. I found some sort of bike race going on in the area where I wanted to photograph. I'm not into sports photography, but since the opportunity presented itself, I decided to try to take some photos. My first attempts were pretty lame. Half a bike with nothing but the backside of the biker, etc. But gradually I started to get it figured out.

This is one of the photos

Statement T-shirt

Couldn't resist grabbing my camera and snapping a picture of this young lady and her t-shirt. I'm not sure what statement she's trying to make, but I bet she isn't majoring in partying, like I did!

Taken on UNL East Campus

Filley Hall-UNL East Campus

Filley Hall

The Dairy Industry Building was designed and constructed beginning in 1915, with the new building occupied in 1916. Developed as part of the farm and city campus expansions that occurred after 1914, Dairy Industry represents one of three farm campus buildings designed by Coolidge & Hodgdon, the "official architects of the University"

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Dairy Industry was renamed H. C. Filley Hall in 1972. In the 1980's a very large addition designed by Leo A. Daly Co. was added to the east side of the building. The Dairy Store, a favorite local ice cream spot, was relocated into the new facility from its location in the original structure.

The original cost of the building was $125,000.

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Smoke Signal Sculpture

About a week ago I took a photo that I thought was fairly unremarkable and had no intention of posting. Because I am sometimes lazy about deleting photos that I don't think are of any particular value, I still have it. In the foreground it shows a family playing catch at Pioneers Park. At the top of the photo is the statute "Smoke Signal".



I cropped the sculture for a better look. It is a 15-foot tall, 5-ton sculpture by Ellis Luis Burman Jr. and was unveiled at the park in 1935.



Friday's Lincoln Journal Star reports the sculpture was defaced. How sad.

Another Kite

Kite Flying

Sunny Sunday

Taking advantage of one of the many bike trails in Lincoln

The Carroll L. Moore Memorial Sundial

The inscription on the plaque reads:

In Memory of
Carroll L. Moore
Professor of Physics
1955-1988
given by his family
1997

More about the Carroll L. Moore Memorial Sundial

The sundial, made possible by a generous donation from the Moore family, was manufactured by Cold Spring Granite Inc., Cold Spring, MN, and installed by Milacek Monument Co., Omaha, NE. Invaluable assistance was provided by local amateur astronomers, Erik Hubl (No. 48-51) and Dr. Peter Morin, M.D. (No. 16).
The base of the sundial was installed on Wednesday, 20 March 1998 (see below, No. 1-6); the dial plate and gnomon were installed the following Wednesday, 27 March 1998 (see No. 7-27). The granite base weighs 6,270 lbs. and is ~6 ft. in diameter. The granite dial plate weighs 3,420 lbs. and is 5 ft. 8 in. in diameter. The stainless steel gnomon weighs 200 lbs. and is 5 in. in diameter.

School Bus

The juxtaposition of the STOP sign and the name of the child care facility tickled my fancy.

Maxwell Arboretum Bridge

Bridge going into Maxwell Arboretum on the East Campus of the University of Nebraska.



Can you find the squirrel?

Alpha Gamma Delta

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The fraternity is located at Nebraska Wesleyan University

Yesterday I posted a photo of another view of this fraternity. In my dialog I questioned why Alpha Gamma Delta referred to itself as a fraternity when it was obviously a women's organization. In the comments Jill said

I can answer that! I am a member of this Fraternity and this question is often asked. When the organization was founded in 1904, the professor that advised our eleven founders suggested that we should be a Fraternity instead of a sorority because we are a Greek-letter organization, and the root of Fraternity is a Greek word, while the root of sorority is Latin.

In light of that I decided to include the history of Alpha Gamma Delta

Alpha Gamma Delta was officially founded on May 30, 1904 at the home of Dr. Wellesley Perry Coddington, a professor at Syracuse University who was instrumental in the early development of Alpha Gamma Delta. Each of the Fraternity's 11 founders were progressive women who selflessly contributed to the foundation and growth of Alpha Gamma Delta. Since the founding, collegiate chapters have been installed at 181 colleges and universities across North America and more than 145,000 women have become Alpha Gam sisters. Guided by our Purpose, Alpha Gamma Deltas are impacting our communities and contributing to the world's work.

On that web page there is a photo of the eleven founding women which I think is kind of neat.

Alpha Gamma Delta

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The sorority/fraternity is located at Nebraska Wesleyan University

Alpha Gamma Delta

Alpha Gamma Delta is an international women’s fraternity that promotes academic excellence, philanthropic giving, ongoing leadership and personal development and above all, a spirit of loving sisterhood. Guided by our Purpose, Alpha Gamma Deltas strive to attain a higher standard, thereby improving their lives, the lives of those around them and the communities in which they live. Together, we continually work to inspire the woman and impact the world.

I am perplexed by the terminology used by the Alpha Gamma Delta site. They are obviously a women's organization, but throughout the site they refer to themselves as a fraternity. I always thought fraternities were for men and sororities for women. So I looked it up in my dictionary and the definitions confirmed what I thought. Thinking perhaps my dictionary might be outdated in this politically correct world, I looked both words up in the Merriam Webster Dictionary on line. Same thing. So I remain baffled and perplexed....

Dome of the First United Methodist Church

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About the architecture:

Part of the stunning architecture of First Church are the massive Greek columns both outside and inside the structure, the amphitheater style balcony and the massive stained glass dome with a patriotic design of Abraham Lincoln, purchased by the G.A.R. of University Place.

First United Methodist Church

More about the First United Methodist Church



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About the architecture:

Part of the stunning architecture of First Church are the massive Greek columns both outside and inside the structure, the amphitheater style balcony and the massive stained glass dome with a patriotic design of Abraham Lincoln, purchased by the G.A.R. of University Place.

State Capitol Building

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The Nebraska State Capitol

The Nebraska State Capitol, the product of a nationwide design competition won by New York Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in 1920, is described as the nation's first truly vernacular State Capitol. The present building, the third to be erected on this site, was the nation's first statehouse design to radically depart from the prototypical form of the nation's Capitol and to use an office tower. Constructed in four phases over ten years from 1922-1932, the building, with furnishings and landscaping, was completed at a cost just under the $10 million budget and was paid for when finished. To decorate the building, Bertram Goodhue selected Lee Lawrie, sculptor; Hildreth Meiere, tile and mosaic designer; and Hartley B. Alexander, thematic consultant for inscription and symbolism.

Sunny Afternoon

What a difference a day makes. This photo is taken from about the same spot as yesterdays photo (post below).

Foggy, Misty Morning

Photo taken at Oak Lake Park. Memorial Stadium, home of the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers, is the building slightly to the left of the middle of the photo.


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