Photos from the USA
May – August 2010

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Wednesday, 26th May	Flying out
Tuesday, 1st June	Cupid and Taylor
Tuesday, 8th June	Boston
Wednesday, 9th June	JFK Library
Thursday, 10th June	Saugus Ironworks Charter Street Burying Ground, Salem, MA Driving north Old Gaol, York, ME Portland, ME
Saturday, 12th June	Bar Harbor, ME Augusta, ME White Mountain National Forest, NH
Sunday, 13th June	Driving through New Hampshire and Vermont Dr Seuss National Memorial Connecticut Rhode Island Plymouth, MA
Monday, 14th June	Plymouth, MA Quincy, MA
Friday, 18th June	Flower
Saturday, 19th June	Taylor
Monday, 21st June	Cupid and Taylor
Thursday, 1st July	Cass and Flower
Saturday, 3rd July	Omaha, NE Fontenelle Forest
Sunday, 4th July	Rabbit Fireworks Light painting
Monday, 5th July	Fireworks
Friday, 9th July	The cats
Sunday, 11th July	Flower
Monday, 12th July	Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha, NE (Desert Dome, Gorilla Valley, Aviary, Expedition Madagascar (lemurs), Bear Canyon, Cat Complex, Wildlife, Aquarium, Butterfly Pavilion) Driving
Tuesday, 13th July	Cupid
Wednesday, 14th July	Sunset
Saturday, 17th July	Apricots
Tuesday, 20th July	Trip to Omaha, NE
Sunday, 25th July	Cupid
Tuesday, 27th July	Driving through Nebraska and Kansas Topeka, KS Driving past Kansas City Driving to Jefferson City, MO Jefferson City, MO Driving to Springfield, MO
Wednesday, 28th July	Driving through Missouri and Arkansas A natural bridge near Clinton, AR Little Rock, AR Hot Springs National Park, AR Lobstah's travels
Thursday, 29th July	Driving through Arkansas and Oklahoma Oklahoma State Capitol Oklahoma City National Memorial Sonic drive-through
Friday, 30th July	Driving through Oklahoma and Kansas Abilene, KS Driving through Kansas and Nebraska
Monday, 2nd August	The cats
Tuesday, 3rd August	C and L Dairy Sweet, Lincoln, NE
Wednesday, 4th August	The cats The garden
Thursday, 5th August	Another trip to Omaha
Friday, 6th August	Cupid
Sunday, 8th August	Wide-angle cats
Tuesday, 10th August	Cupid and Comet
Thursday, 12th August	Trip to Omaha, NE
Saturday, 14th August	PJ's Baby Cakes Sunken Garden Haymarket
Sunday, 15th August	Alien shadow
Monday, 16th August	Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, NE (mosaics, Rotunda, Memorial Chamber, observation deck and miscellaneous) The cats
Tuesday, 17th August	C and L Dairy Sweet, Lincoln, NE
Wednesday, 18th August	Flying home
Thursday, 19th August	Flying home

Updates

2013-02-23:	Dr Seuss National Memorial, Connecticut and Rhode Island (2010-06-13).
2012-11-17:	Oklahoma City National Memorial at night.
2012-07-07:	Oklahoma State Capitol, Oklahoma City National Memorial, Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, NE (mosaics, Rotunda, Memorial Chamber, observation deck and miscellaneous).
2011-12-29:	A squirrel and the cats.
2011-07-16:	Haymarket.
2011-06-21:	PJ's Baby Cakes and Sunken Garden.
2011-05-27:	Little Rock, AR, Hot Springs National Park, AR and Lobstah's travels.
2011-05-23:	Driving through Missouri and Arkansas, a natural bridge near Clinton, AR, driving through Arkansas and Oklahoma, Oklahoma State Capitol and a Sonic drive-through.
2011-05-03:	Jefferson City, MO and driving to Springfield, MO.
2011-02-19:	Jefferson City, MO.
2011-01-01:	Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha (aquarium)
2010-12-23:	Flower and Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha (an orangutan, Bear Canyon, Cat Complex and wildlife)
2010-12-20:	Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha (Aviary, Expedition Madagascar and Bear Canyon), Jefferson City, MO and Flying home.
2010-11-15:	Road trip in Nebraska and Kansas: driving to Kansas, Topeka Kansas City and Driving to Jefferson City.
2010-11-13:	Road trip in Oklahoma and Kansas.
2010-10-26:	Flying out.
2010-10-25:	Cats, cats, the garden, Omaha again, cats, more cats and flying home.
2010-10-23:	Haymarket district, C and L Dairy Sweet, wide-angle cats, another trip to Omaha, an alien shadow and another visit to C and L.
2010-08-01:	Salem, MA, Portland, ME, more from Omaha zoo, Cupid, sunset, apricots and a trip to Omaha, NE and Cupid.
2010-07-14:	Dr Seuss National Memorial, the cats, Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha, NE and getting there and back.
2010-07-06:	Fontenelle Forest, a rabbit, fireworks, light painting and more fireworks.
2010-07-04:	Driving through NH and VT, Dr Seuss National Memorial, cats, cats, cats and more cats.

Wednesday, 26th May

Tuesday, 1st June

Tuesday, 8th June

Boston

Boston Common and the Public Garden. The rose was given to us by two of the Public Gardeners after we helped one of them find her mobile phone, which she'd dropped in the rose bed.

Wednesday, 9th June

JFK Library

Thursday, 10th June

Saugus Ironworks

The first ironworks in the USA. It was a commercial failure but seeded the industry. The buildings are post-war reproductions.

Charter Street Burying Ground, Salem, MA

Driving north

The shots after the first are from the New Hampshire welcome centre in Seabrook. I found it ironic that a “welcome centre” would have so many signs telling you what you're not allowed to do...

Old Gaol, York, ME

Portland, ME

The beer is four quarter-pints and the one at the front is Sea Dog Brewing Company's Blue Paw, a blueberry wheat beer that is, basically, a blueberry muffin in a glass.

Friday, 11th June

Portland Observatory, driving north, Acadia National Park.

Saturday, 12th June

Bar Harbor, ME

Augusta, ME

White Mountain National Forest

Sunday, 13th June

Driving through New Hampshire and Vermont

Dr Seuss National Memorial, Springfield, MA

Connecticut

The Connecticut State Capitol and its environs in Hartford.

Rhode Island

The Rhode Island State House in Providence.

Plymouth, MA

Night photography in an Atlantic fog.

Hartford, CT, and Providence, RI.

Monday, 14th June

Plymouth, MA

Most of these are of the National Monument to the Forefathers. Notice how many of the women on the Mayflower are described as “and wife”.

Quincy, MA

Birthplace of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Pronounced KWIN-zee.

Friday, 18th June

Saturday, 19th June

Monday, 21st June

The blanket was supposed to keep the cats off the clean laundry underneath. Who'd have thought Cupid would want to be under it on such a hot day?

Thursday, 1st July

Saturday, 3rd July

We tried to go to the zoo but the road was jammed solid because of an event at the baseball stadium next door. We aborted, had lunch and went to the Durham Museum, in the old Union Station, instead.

Omaha, NE

Fontenelle Forest, Bellevue, NE

Sunday, 4th July

Rabbit

Wildlife on the lawn.

Fireworks

The city display was cancelled because of a bad weather forecast and there wasn't much else on offer...

Light painting

... so we goofed around in the park with long exposures and LED torches.

Monday, 5th July

Today's forecast was actually worse but turned out to be wrong.

Friday, 9th July

The first four were taken using an office chair and a blanket as a mini-studio.

Sunday, 11th July

Monday, 12th July

Second attempt at the zoo. This time, we made it.

Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha, NE

Desert Dome

Gorilla Valley

Aviary

Expedition Madagascar

Black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata)

Bear Canyon

Cat Complex

Wildlife

Juvenile American robin (Turdus migratorius)

Aquarium

Butterfly Pavilion

Male red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus)

Driving

The plane is by the Interstate between Lincoln and Omaha. The other three were taken on the way to dinner, which we had just across the state line in Iowa.

Tuesday, 13th July

Wednesday, 14th July

Saturday, 17th July

The principal ingredient of apricot sorbet...

Tuesday, 20th July

Another evening in Omaha; another shot at that plane.

Sunday, 25th July

Goofing around with a cat and a wide-angle lens.

Tuesday, 27th July

Driving through Nebraska and Kansas

Topeka, KS

Driving past Kansas City

I-70 through Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Most of the shots (all but one) are taken from the former but (just over half) show the latter.

Kansas City, MO, seen from I-70, Kansas City, KS

Driving to Jefferson City, MO

Jefferson City, MO

Driving to Springfield, MO

Wednesday, 28th July

Driving through Missouri and Arkansas

Natural bridge, near Clinton, AR

We stopped here on a whim, having seen ads by the road. Access is via an incredibly steep road and, on the way back up, we discovered that the Subaru's fuel economy display bottoms out at 1.5mpg. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we were in gallons-per-mile territory.

For sale sign, natural bridge near Clinton, AR

Entrance cabin, natural bridge near Clinton, AR

Little Rock, AR

Hot Springs National Park, AR

Lobstah's travels

Thursday, 29th July

Driving through Arkansas and Oklahoma

Oklahoma State Capitol, Oklahoma City, OK

Commemoration of the Murrah Building bombing

Commemoration of arrival of Native Americans

Oklahoma City National Memorial, OK

In 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City was blown up by a truck bomb, with the loss of 168 lives. The site is now a memorial garden. The Gates of Time display the time one minute before and after the bombing. Each chair in the Field of Chairs represents a victim of the bombing, arranged in rows according to the floor of the building the person was on. The children who died in the daycare centre have smaller chairs. The chairs correspond to the empty chairs at family dining tables.

N Robinson and NW 4th, Oklahoma City, OK

Sonic drive-through, Guthrie, OK

We arrived rather late at our hotel in Guthrie so we stopped for a drive-through burger before checking in. While we were eating, a huge locusty-grasshopper thing flew in through Kita's open window and landed on our ice-cream. We were surprised. (And more concerned with ejecting it than with producing a photographic record of its exploits.)

Sonic drive-through restaurant, Guthrie, OK

Friday, 30th July

Driving through Oklahoma and Kansas

I should point out that the last one was taken through a telephoto lens so we weren't quite so close to doom as it might appear.

Abilene, KS

Site of the Eisenhower Presidential Library. Also site of Kuntz's drive-in. And, yes, we drove around the block an extra time to get the photo.

Ant dragging blue mud dauber wasp (Chalybion californicum)

Lobstah toy on Eisenhower Library sign, Abilene, KS

Driving through Kansas and Nebraska

With a brief stop in Marysville, KS, so Lobstah could stretch her claws.

Saturday, 31st July

The Haymarket district of Lincoln.

Monday, 2nd August

Tuesday, 3rd August

C and L Dairy Sweet, near Pioneer Park. Purveyors of fine lemon ice-cream.

Wednesday, 4th August

The cats

The garden

Thursday, 5th August

Once more unto Omaha, though the photos are all from the journey home.

Friday, 6th August

Sunday, 8th August

Two cats. One wide-angle lens.

Tuesday, 10th August

Thursday, 12th August

Off to Omaha again.

Saturday, 14th August

PJ's Baby Cakes, Lincoln, NE

Sunken Garden, Lincoln, NE

Haymarket, Lincoln, NE

The Haymarket is the area around the railway station and is full of restaurants, bars and artsy shops. Not including Village Inn, which isn't downtown.