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Very nice OT

Nice pix OT. Where is the lake?

good morning from ouside of gent, belgium.

way to go kollin!

I like that first one OT-

I enjoy those lonely road type shots

Thanks everyone. They're not the best color shots, but it's always a gamble trying to catch the color on the right weekend.

The lake is on the Eau Claire Lakes chain in Bayfield County, WI. It's about 30 miles north of Hayward in a tiny little town called Barnes.

Here's a picture of the cranberry harvest taken a couple of years ago. We missed it this year, but occasionally we've been there at the right time. It's a cool thing to see.

ohh - that one is awesome. I love cranberries. I would love to go and see them do that.

...I worked in the 'bogs' for a few years...

I was 18-22

Would have dated ANY cranberry girl at that point of my life....they are all loaded $$$$$$$

...ah...how I've grown up and realized $$$ isn't everything.

but let me put it this way

The costs of establishing a cranberry plantation are very high for an agricultural commodity—generally between $50000 and $70000 per acre

but most of the cranberry familys not only had about 500 acres each...they also had family stock in oceanspray

yep...everybody wanted to date a cranberry girl.

When you time it right and are there for the harvest you can go to the barn and purchase a huge bag for $1. Can't get them any fresher than that!

I don't doubt that it's a spendy adventure. Here in wine co. Plantable acres that aren't planted go for about $250k and acre, plus you are looking at $40 for materials/labor to plant and then about $4k upkeep for the first 3 or so years until you get your first saleable crop.

and that's just an acre. Almost better to get them established, a couple of years ago you could get planted/producing acres in Napa Valley floor (scarce area) for about a Mil an acre.

Cranberry girls eh? I could see you with a Cranny Kitch.. heh.

u can get in a bit cheaper...but you are not part f ocean spray...and yest...its about that much per acre..

I know part of the major cost is moving water around to the bogs..

I found these recent shots of what will be the world's tallest building when it's completed in 2008. You can see the amount of cash flowing into Dubai in recent years. Man what a boom!

It's already taller than the building where I work.

how come we got the broken bell?? (and some context for my current tagline).

wow, nice pics! IMG_8368 is quite unique.

it reminded me of the keyhole in the building at north dale rec.

kind of. that was one of those places i didn't get to see because tc was out during the day taking those pictures.

wow cm, that 2nd one in Dubai is amazing!

It looks like they're building a city in a year!

Is OSHA in other countries like that?

ares & tc? did you go castle touring? that would rock.

I especially like IMG_8352

8399 is cool to see trees amongst all the old structures

I love pics of bells

and 8412 is a beauty of a sunset shot

so.....did you find the WAFFLE HOUSE??

the thing all those architectural shots reminds me of is legos. for some reason, the squared off slopes are lego-ish to me.

we caught the sunset shot last night as we were walking our of our hotel, j.

and kitch, i'm still looking. no luck yet.

O - M - G!!

That's some fantastic architecture you have over there. Great shots TC! Thanks for posting ares. I'm glad the weather looks like it's cooperating for you enough to get out and about.

Please tell me that you were able to tour the Anne Frank house. That's my #1 place on Earth that I'd like to visit before I die. It looks like it was in one of the shots.

funny, I was just talking to a friend who visited that house and I mentioned I had a friend who was over there and planned to visit it this week -

he said he tried to walk across the floor -tiptoeing and the floor would creek :frown:

that was one of my favorite books and movie as at about age 9 :frown:

Very cool ares and TC looks like fun.

we weren't able to on sunday (when we planned to). they don't let you bring luggage in, and there were no luggage lockers inside of amsterdam central station. right now, we're planning on checking in at the airport on wednesday, dumping off our checked luggage, checking our carry on stuff into a locker at schiphol and heading out between the time our train gets in and the time the plane leaves. tc was really hoping to get there while we were there on sunday too.

btw, belgian beer == good. which is really hard for me to say as a non beer drinker. we had some cherry beer at a little pub last night. pictures to come later this morning as i edit them and resize them.

its a blast. we're hoping to get into antwerp tonight and brussels tomorrow night before heading to london.

he said he tried to walk across the floor -tiptoeing and the floor would creek

eek. :smile:

Hope you don't mind me using one of your photos ares.

Nice pics!! Could you get a few more of that hot blonde? :wink:

beautiful esd!

would that be the hot blonde with glasses in the first pic? :wink:

hahaha nice

that pic that ESD shopped up looks like it's from Peter Pan

those are great photos ares.

Last night I found some B&W's that my father had taken when he was in the service in germany. Some of them are really good shots for being so old. when I have time, I will scan them with his comments that he wrote home to my gran. Lots of bombed out buildings, but some really amazing other shots.

also - in my grandfathers album, he was in Hawaii in 42-45, and wow, there are these photos of people harvesting pineapples, and a luau that are amazing.

Didn't use PhotoShop I used Illustrator :smile:

i've got about 130 more to post. just wish i had the time to post them :chagrin:

and then there's the pics we'll be taking in london this weekend and paris on monday and tuesday,

<<<---FEELS LIKE I'M GOING TO BE SITTING THRU SOMEBODY'S VACATION SLIDE SHOW......

DON'T MIND ME...I'M IN THE BACK DRINKING THE BEER..EATING CHIPS...TALKING OUTLOUD....AND SNICKERING.

Ha! I took over 150 pictures when I went to Oregon in August. You'd think I never went anywhere! :neutral: :cool: :sillygrin:

Did you change it? The moon looks different.

ohh - are you going to have them posted to like a yahoo photo or something? so we can watch them as a slide show?

OT - This is kind of a question for you, since I'm hoping maybe you recall this place

Or Me2... maybe you've come across it in your line of business?

EAWDEN STUDIO @ 14 East 7th Street, Saint Paul, MN ??

It was at one time a photo studio - one of the photos I found when going through my Grandfather's photo album's was of a child and the stamp on the back was from there. I am wondering tho if its a real photo or post mortum. It has the rosey cheeks and is kinda a creepy photo. This side of the family had no ties to MN, so it wouldn't be a baby photo from my mom's side, as it was well placed in my grandpa's photo album.

The only thing besides the stamp is the words 2 years and 21 days.

I believe it to be from pre 1942 - as the book from what I can tell goes in Chronological order, and the ones that follow were from his time in Hawaii in the service 1942-45.

any insight would be appreciated

I'm attaching links if you are curious

Baby Photo

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