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.

more photos

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