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Snowglobe of understatement. Not sure how the Delicate Arch figures into it. But <a href="http://www.nps.gov/arch/index.htm" target="_blank">Arches National Park</a> is pretty amazing, crazy rocks and landscapes. Makes you feel tiny.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-38855532117682680572012-05-24T19:14:00.002-07:002012-05-24T19:14:38.388-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Euro Cup is coming! I won't be in Europe but the occasion calls for a snowglobe. The first dwarf guy is from the <a href="http://kopalnia.pl/index.php?id_language=2&id_news=&action=&id_site=&language_change=1&" target="_blank">Wieliczka Salt Mines</a> outside of Krakow, this stunning, gigantic mine started in the 13th century and still working today, full of caves and tunnels and salt, complete with a full cathedral deep into the ground with an 80-foot tall ceiling, giant chandelier made from salt, and tons of artwork carved into the walls by miners.<br />
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The soccer dragon is inspired by the start of the city. A giant dragon was terrorizing the countryside there (this is true) in the first few hundred years of the calendar. Fire, damsels in distress, etc. The King of the town, Krak, said somebody's got to do something, and then marry my daughter. The brave shoemaker Dratewka put a bunch of sulfur, or something that would go boom, inside of a sheep and fed it to the dragon. Boom. Town saved. I also heard it was a sheepherder named Krak who saved the day, and then the town was named after him - Krakow. Who knows, its all charming. The town is <a href="http://www.krakow-info.com/history.htm" target="_blank">written about as a big trade city</a> as far back as 965, and right on the river is a dragon statue that breathes fire today. You just got to catch it at the right time at night. Seriously.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-86551952584984377952012-04-24T09:41:00.002-07:002012-04-24T09:41:12.564-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Although snow does <a href="http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2010/12/11/video-snow-covers-mauna-kea-on-hawaii-island/">happen</a> there.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-13976996734920221812012-04-18T09:32:00.002-07:002012-04-18T09:34:16.510-07:00Croatia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hidden gem - not this rock but the city. TG went to a film fest there - said it was beautiful - confirmed by an episode of Michael Palin's New Europe series.....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-17968165942328204402010-12-09T12:23:00.000-08:002010-12-09T13:37:48.265-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwj15DctGc9QSHe7Inljv2CK-EpK1GadxffximDumjzUHp022Db17qAwADe_mK7B6aOKfbLtm0P_LXQPCIqCrCZFkrrxYPtHruQ9Pa2kHDfLWSDEmmcHuRlJV86eqf-SLzT8z2/s1600/iowa+overview.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwj15DctGc9QSHe7Inljv2CK-EpK1GadxffximDumjzUHp022Db17qAwADe_mK7B6aOKfbLtm0P_LXQPCIqCrCZFkrrxYPtHruQ9Pa2kHDfLWSDEmmcHuRlJV86eqf-SLzT8z2/s320/iowa+overview.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In lovely Elk Horn, IA, you'll find a windmill </span><a href="http://www.danishwindmill.com/danish_windmill_history/history_overview.asp"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">there</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. And it's a real one - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">built in 1848 in Norre Snede, Denmark. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The citizens decided to bring it over in 1976 - let's hear it for a townhall meeting that friggin' gets things done. Now its stated as Iowa's Welcome Center, and its gorgeous. All of these globes came from the same gift shop.</span><br />
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Iowa also has cows and corn. It rules. Much thanks to Brent and Donna.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-81165942529511258702010-08-07T18:29:00.000-07:002010-08-07T18:29:25.035-07:00Gaudi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_VXlIc3eHABnJee50yA8x8okgSp2EQdqqsNL-eZCHZ8Bwn7rjYXiAc5XHduJkDli2qza4twq2p9wO6A3P0oc_jDWOu-SDG1PHItLov_TLbzjzZnRXoVgkRPq8Vj24STLhCP4i/s1600/Gaudi+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_VXlIc3eHABnJee50yA8x8okgSp2EQdqqsNL-eZCHZ8Bwn7rjYXiAc5XHduJkDli2qza4twq2p9wO6A3P0oc_jDWOu-SDG1PHItLov_TLbzjzZnRXoVgkRPq8Vj24STLhCP4i/s320/Gaudi+1.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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Intense.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-88496867082179626192010-07-07T10:52:00.000-07:002010-07-07T10:52:08.068-07:00Happy Birthday Dear Jesus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijsB-FVGuUaNdi93nfk14duBE2IRFgryxFUiio8xzeUj_RhJd5sEXF5FJY6JmowQzr279oqmmaP27u5iv5EtixsTUkKGJkdKB-FqLPlsAtxbMiBNSB_hBoSMLsnNCJfy4_0kK4/s1600/happy+birthday+jesus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijsB-FVGuUaNdi93nfk14duBE2IRFgryxFUiio8xzeUj_RhJd5sEXF5FJY6JmowQzr279oqmmaP27u5iv5EtixsTUkKGJkdKB-FqLPlsAtxbMiBNSB_hBoSMLsnNCJfy4_0kK4/s320/happy+birthday+jesus.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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Again, too many narratives here. This is essentially about Christmas, right?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-91914214813658342552010-07-06T21:54:00.000-07:002010-07-07T09:59:56.767-07:00Las Vegas (Home of the White Tigers)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisc0weTTE6w_8QfbSIPa3oiDBALUOnV_U4HBTVvV492ZsISR3RfhnF63Z1FxwTNuoYinwsreJX7zKb0NiR9OwYWP0ECGJrDAho-MtnVnRjZN6n8bMLb7PcLdSB-wGJBCBPWFme/s1600/las+vegas+tigers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisc0weTTE6w_8QfbSIPa3oiDBALUOnV_U4HBTVvV492ZsISR3RfhnF63Z1FxwTNuoYinwsreJX7zKb0NiR9OwYWP0ECGJrDAho-MtnVnRjZN6n8bMLb7PcLdSB-wGJBCBPWFme/s320/las+vegas+tigers.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So many narratives here it's impossible to even try.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-41525286298733543552010-06-20T08:05:00.000-07:002010-06-20T08:05:49.478-07:00Deadwood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvFLkb8dQa4fnIdc3QOpgisQYtd0p_MKVWoxh6Nu3FAwPsOxLVldDtx8MNLB-4Ik8pAp7fe6o2zP3WinS1g-5h_gV2vGrIhCoi8Ik1Xu6hCfinD-WZ4CqLhunZDvjoXxLsPsgV/s1600/deadwood+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvFLkb8dQa4fnIdc3QOpgisQYtd0p_MKVWoxh6Nu3FAwPsOxLVldDtx8MNLB-4Ik8pAp7fe6o2zP3WinS1g-5h_gV2vGrIhCoi8Ik1Xu6hCfinD-WZ4CqLhunZDvjoXxLsPsgV/s320/deadwood+1.jpg" /></a></div><br />
The town has been there forever but its been a tourist attraction from the recent, and awesome, show. My parents visited the town. Most of the original town burned down a long time ago so don't expect the film set if you ever go. The show was great, one of the most realistic depictions of the old west in movies (good television series with great stories are movies). Genre films like westerns and period pieces tend to clean things up too much. The best works remember that people were still people in other eras. Dialogue was rough and messy and vile. Prostitutes didn't look like Julia Roberts. Mining kept the town alive while destroying its citizens.<br />
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The globe is nice, though. It has the semi-popular subtitle, which really helps anyone who doesn't know why the town depicted exists. "Gold Rush 1876" reads "Wow, America", while the building inside looks nice and homey.<br />
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The other side gets some roughnecks in there. Wild Bill Hickok, badass gunfighter and gambling addict. Other side has a prospector, all noble and proud. Time makes myths.<br />
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The cards are what Hickok were holding when he got killed in a poker game. The aces and eights everyone agrees upon, but no one knows what the fifth card was, if he was still holding it. The nine of diamonds is from a local newspaper report.<br />
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And what I thought was a house is actually a saloon. Quaint!<br />
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I like how tiny the building is, with the gold snowing down. Feels real.<br />
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I have two of these globes (still less than my globes of the Eiffel Tower), and cannot get any of those damn rings on the needle. Some globes have a built-in game, which could not have been made to actually work.<br />
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Weird that its in water. From the travelling exhibit of memorabilia, which did a great job of telling the various human stories from the ship.<br />
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Hopefully the next film on the ship will be about Violet Jessop, who also survived the Olympic's hitting another ship and the sinking of the Britannic. Hardcore.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-2859720245130987542010-06-01T22:22:00.000-07:002010-06-01T22:22:44.064-07:00Big Ben - London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ttImTDFL-kPufTkWDVxTvIqD3pz1HnUp-o8_mPlOyCfeCCACEVm0sxj_EWEbxyrTFwY46jsa0Q4k0xb-0q1cExDAMqr3KTk4j9cEAlQaPN-flmE5el1Ah6Tr5utFrAHnRlFk/s1600/london+big+ben+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ttImTDFL-kPufTkWDVxTvIqD3pz1HnUp-o8_mPlOyCfeCCACEVm0sxj_EWEbxyrTFwY46jsa0Q4k0xb-0q1cExDAMqr3KTk4j9cEAlQaPN-flmE5el1Ah6Tr5utFrAHnRlFk/s320/london+big+ben+1.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Once again, the lesson of the snowglobe - find the two most famous things about a city and pile them in. Helpful if one is a building and the other one moves. New design here - the magnet snowglobe.<br />
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Closer inspection shows this is actually a nice piece of art. The bus is 70s cartoony, Big Ben is stark and moody, and the best part - the halftone clouds.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-26968538565102685482010-06-01T22:15:00.000-07:002010-06-01T22:15:14.414-07:00La Brea Tar Pits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA-Fpk58CGEJEneNx0N6U2Jf5JEAtVSSvFtrnj3_NimeEdtVqFtpkCrBGBTaZ8Fig6CJfs9Z_y_WF_5R3sV7GEMKZt-_NhJ6K4r1h93yU-G4TYZ1b7gxOUF5g20_DDFICutYSi/s1600/la+brea+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA-Fpk58CGEJEneNx0N6U2Jf5JEAtVSSvFtrnj3_NimeEdtVqFtpkCrBGBTaZ8Fig6CJfs9Z_y_WF_5R3sV7GEMKZt-_NhJ6K4r1h93yU-G4TYZ1b7gxOUF5g20_DDFICutYSi/s320/la+brea+2.jpg" /></a></div><br />
If corporations don't start being humanist while making their money, we are gonna end up like these poor fuckers.<br />
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Grabbed this amazing guy in the train station in Providence.<br />
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Appropriately no snow with the crab, but some crazy blue goo.<br />
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I need to finish researching the water that goes in globes. Poor Seattle has run out.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-23300455953855542912010-05-31T23:03:00.001-07:002010-05-31T23:04:03.375-07:00Texas Snowman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJLYs9rFnozuP5l8VKO5jx1fCvd4v-hLdPxH9n1gvoN3ZK5momAcW-fW4bSdPtdXQxxcAnrtjtYh9SCVpNDBR2i-Wuh4-VuMbLR23qVP2qOzsr0AlIDAXrYOuuYzb7y5MT06Zf/s1600/texas+snowman+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJLYs9rFnozuP5l8VKO5jx1fCvd4v-hLdPxH9n1gvoN3ZK5momAcW-fW4bSdPtdXQxxcAnrtjtYh9SCVpNDBR2i-Wuh4-VuMbLR23qVP2qOzsr0AlIDAXrYOuuYzb7y5MT06Zf/s320/texas+snowman+1.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Let's face it - this is a great idea<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The "TM" is a little overboard</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-40048007824830227072010-05-29T11:44:00.000-07:002010-05-29T11:44:45.132-07:00Las Vegas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqg02z01fopPrbtlvs4MeeMVJOFItRYB3LiyNFi-rzFVMgFwNhpI-t6Ega1o7wRaA-blfPDGIoBgBlFJUqpDugi4ITFcEgtne7i3YnwltfUO6LBAUNUCkkmJk_2B8PfeujvCMv/s1600/las+vegas+slots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqg02z01fopPrbtlvs4MeeMVJOFItRYB3LiyNFi-rzFVMgFwNhpI-t6Ega1o7wRaA-blfPDGIoBgBlFJUqpDugi4ITFcEgtne7i3YnwltfUO6LBAUNUCkkmJk_2B8PfeujvCMv/s320/las+vegas+slots.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Lots of my money stuck in these damn things.<br />
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Worth every penny.<br />
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At first I didn't understand it, so I bought it.<br />
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Wikipedia enlightened me:<br />
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"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">One of the national symbols of Canada, the beaver is depicted on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_(Canadian_coin)" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Nickel (Canadian coin)">Canadian five-cent piece</a> and was on the first Canadian postage stamp, the Three Penny Beaver. It is also the state animal of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Oregon">Oregon</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="New York State">New York</a>, and a common school emblem for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Engineering">engineering</a> schools, including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="California Institute of Technology">California Institute of Technology</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>, as well as the mascot for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_University" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Oregon State University">Oregon State University</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_College_of_New_York" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="City College of New York">City College of New York</a>. The beaver also appears in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Coat of arms">coats of arms</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Toronto" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="University of Toronto">University of Toronto</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Laurier_University" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Wilfrid Laurier University">Wilfrid Laurier University</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a>."</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-9277419544880233842010-05-29T10:26:00.000-07:002010-05-29T10:26:43.359-07:00Kentucky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEionuhnbw4xRP0GigfYMRb7FEKBvjx4Lth9c4rUGznHb5EIAgtGH6W8ETxNSyfQF-03k1h63NmfCuCk8lnHZTC7rKyHM4YH5JChSGfGiKeQ6YIt4iOR5OIvdGdh8p4yHlotlVyJ/s1600/kentucky+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEionuhnbw4xRP0GigfYMRb7FEKBvjx4Lth9c4rUGznHb5EIAgtGH6W8ETxNSyfQF-03k1h63NmfCuCk8lnHZTC7rKyHM4YH5JChSGfGiKeQ6YIt4iOR5OIvdGdh8p4yHlotlVyJ/s320/kentucky+1.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Makes sense that they would have horses. But kickass sculpture and colors. Odd thing is I got this in the Cincinnati airport. Official state flower is Goldenrod, roses are the official horse race flower. Doesn't really matter, just interesting.<br />
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FYI there is a great documentary called JOCKEY on dvd, find it.<br />
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I start to lose track of globes when I have mulitples from the same city. I think I have 4 from D.C. but of all different buildings. This is where Congress meets, not the geographic center of the city but where the quadrants of the city are divided. Probably some freemason stuff at work there. There was a competition for the design, lots of things got changed in the original construction, its been burned by the English, bombed and attacked over hundreds of years. They also passed some important laws inside. And the interior walls have some beautiful art and design on them.<br />
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So far all the D.C. globes have stars for snow.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-17044965074771248542010-05-29T09:41:00.000-07:002010-05-29T09:41:34.341-07:00Sundance Channel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxHsR7kgxh7i4HAkkt0AK6Vq4pMP5SGRK0d-9hqe-pXB2wvoxSbAgdVuovCmBjLjVb-U3xk9X-o4_Nhx2SggVKfVZAP9X88o0j2ZTltwjCcYhSS0yrvrFgkcpmy86AlIcVj1iY/s1600/sundance+channel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxHsR7kgxh7i4HAkkt0AK6Vq4pMP5SGRK0d-9hqe-pXB2wvoxSbAgdVuovCmBjLjVb-U3xk9X-o4_Nhx2SggVKfVZAP9X88o0j2ZTltwjCcYhSS0yrvrFgkcpmy86AlIcVj1iY/s400/sundance+channel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
I think all TV channels should have snowglobes. If it makes total sense with the snow.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31564273.post-76794913412920606562010-05-23T20:53:00.000-07:002010-05-23T20:53:40.945-07:00Rehoboth Beach<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YkuY0vzyAuXCg3hkK0ULKfs-U4DvFq53KHREN3LftUtzrofRt7G6wg07ocS10b8FUkjB0-epICcvc5chicMJAxGc2R8LtOoC_qaxXs87t4ehFEFzDs9h8KKlqrMpQ0Sodl8_/s1600/rehobeth+beach+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YkuY0vzyAuXCg3hkK0ULKfs-U4DvFq53KHREN3LftUtzrofRt7G6wg07ocS10b8FUkjB0-epICcvc5chicMJAxGc2R8LtOoC_qaxXs87t4ehFEFzDs9h8KKlqrMpQ0Sodl8_/s320/rehobeth+beach+1.jpg" /></a></div><br />
I can't get enough of the critter globes. These, I believe, are sea lions.<br />
The base sculpture is pretty incredible as well.<br />
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If you don't know, it's the "Bee State." Thus the trippy bee hive.<br />
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I got a job there in 2001, I moved into a studio apartment in November. The building was old, from the 1910s, and was therefore both beautiful and a little beat up. The heating system was the old style metal radiator, visually pleasing but with no thermostat. It was just on, all the time, blistering hot. So I would leave a window open. The snow would storm in, melting about a foot from the window, keeping the air perfect. Snowglobe room.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0