We piled in the car to go to Moonshine for lunch. On the way, we stopped in at the hardware store. Steve asked me to show him the grain elevator that I had shot the day before and we went for a little walk. Then he pulled out a little box and proposed. So newly…
Day Three: Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Rachael and I were up before most of the people in the house so we went to Hidalgo and did some photographing of the grain elevator (in service into the 1980s) and the abandoned store across the street. It looks like the merchandise is just sitting there, from the late 1950s. We really wanted to…
Day Six: Saturday, August 23, 2008
Saturday morning we drove back from Tuscola, and packed in a lot in one day. We stopped by Cameo Vineyards and Winery, right next to the fairgrounds. There have been grapes grown in the area for over 100 years but this particular family started up the business about 15 years ago. They make delicious, very…
Day Five: Friday, August 22, 2008
Friday we went over to my grandad’s shed to poke around. He has always has bits of everything around, and it is strangely organized. Like things are together and yet there is a chaos to it. In the yard were a couple of butterflies… We then went up to the fair for delicious lunch and…
Day Four: Thursday, August 21, 2008
Thursday was a bit of a road trip day. We drove north of Greenup about 16 miles to Coles County to visit the Lincoln Log Cabin historical site. The home was built by Lincoln’s parents, but after he had moved away from home. There is reason to believe that Lincoln visited them while they lived…