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JoeMO said:
The midwest is getting dumped on today. These are from several years ago from Mink Lake in Minnesota, then two from Lake Louise up in Alberta, Canada.
John Ruskin said, "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
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When I still had legs that worked, we did Lake Louise and stayed in Canmore for a week. Yeah, talk about beautiful.
 
Didn't post these last year, but no guarantee I haven't ever posted them. Tulips are probably my favorite flower and they are gone way too quickly. 1,2,3,5 are from Art Hill in Forest Park. The statue is the Apotheosis of St. Louis in front of our Art Museum. The one with the red tulips was taken for our nurses during the vid since 2 of our best hospitals are in the background. 4 and 6 are from our Botanical Garden and 7 is back at Forest Park at the Jewel Box.


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Well, I was wondering where to post these, but let's have a go at it. This is an early ( circa 1905-1908 ) food cooler. Our son Mike did the restoration so I don't have a before photo. The first photo is the top, which needed repair due to rust. He mentioned it is filled with a steel wool type material. The edges are beveled inwards and it is seriously heavy. This covered the container where you put in ice. Second photo is with the lid open but a full shot of the cooler. Third is with the food container open. Last but not least, if you glance over at the 9 o'clock position you might notice an interesting item ( in photo 1 ). Yes, he is retired Army and Iraq vet and Purple Heart recipient.
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Pugman1943 said:
The one thing that amazes me today is the fact they did all of this by hand. Wonderful photos.
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The one photo that I took of the column at the Acropolis was fascinating for me. A hand carved intricate ornamental filigree at the top of the column just blew me away! That is some amazing craftsmanship at a time we'd think something that detailed would have been very difficult.

I think the greatest takeaway I had from the trip was how sophisticated their society really was. To build such amazing very large structures with such fine detail was mindboggling. I did not get to go in (was way too busy) but the Pantheon in Rome still has the largest unsupported concrete dome in the world. Built 2000 years ago it's still standing strong! And the amount of engineering that went into it is incredible - so much so it's hard to even imagine they had that kind of knowledge in such things as the physics at play (strength of materials, statics and dynamics, etc.).

I highly recommend investing the time and $$$ to go see this place. It is one of the best trips we've been on.
 
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