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This is a view across the Mississippi River from Fort Kaskaskia toward the part of Illinois that lies west of the river due to changes in the river's course. It makes a good desktop.
1200 x 900 |
The site of the old Illinois State Capital (Kaskaskia), now merely a bend in the Mississippi River. The town was approximately in the southwest corner of the image.
1600 x 1200 |
This is a view of the scenery in the Saxon Alps, a part of Germany just south of Dresden, along the Czech border. I went for a hike here in the summer of 1988.
2080 x 1300 |
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The pagoda at the Senso-ji Temple in Asakusa. We visited Tokyo for a few days in the summer of 2007.
2000 x 1500 |
The moon over the main gate to the Asakusa Kannon (Senso-ji) Temple in Tokyo.
2000 x 1500 |
The shrine of the Meiji Emperor in Tokyo; this is the family shrine for the Japanese royal family.
2560 x 1600 |
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This is Loch Ness, the largest lake in the United Kingdom, and that is Urquhart Castle in the middle of this image.
(June of 2003)
2400 x 1500 |
A view of the Camoes Garden in the early morning. These gardens in Macau are a lovely place for a stroll. (July, 2007)
2560 x 1600 |
The casks of rice wine brought as gifts to the Meiji-jingu temple in Tokyo. (July, 2007)
1600 x 1200 |
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Looking up inside the dome of the Minnesota state capitol, in the rotunda. July of 2005
2250 x 1500 |
A ceiling in the Wisconsin State Capitol building.
2000 x 1500 |
The interior of the Wisconsin State capitol dome.
1200 x 900 |
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Looking up in the rotunda of the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. (June, 2005)
1200 x 900 |
The inside of the Colorado State Capitol's rotunda dome.
(January, 2003)
2100 x 1200 |
The Connecticut State Capitol dome's interior, looking up.
(June, 2006)
1440 x 1080 |
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The Florida State Capitol is a new modern building, but the old State House stands in front of it, and this is the interior of the old capitol's dome.
(May, 1997)
1280 x 960 |
The Maryland state capitol building is one of the older state houses. This is a view looking up inside the main rotunda. (July, 2006)
1280 x 960 |
The Indiana State House has a lovely stained glass interior dome in the main rotunda. (January, 2003)
2093 x 1400 |
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A ceiling in a room that is now used for hearings and committee meetings in the Illinois state house.
(March, 2008)
1440 x 1080 |
Standing in the middle of the rotunda in the Illinois State Capitol and looking straight up at the interior of the dome. (March, 2008)
1600 x 1200 |
Stained glass in the ceiling of the Illinois Senate chambers in the capitiol building in Springfield.
1440 x 1080 |
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A 19th century French paperweight.
(May, 2010)
2400 x 1500 |
Hong Kong at night (June 2010)
2240 x 1400 |
Dome of Kansas State Capitol in Topeka (September 2000).
2330 x 1575 |
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The Chancellor's Fountain given by the Ringeisen family to UIS.
(September, 2008)
1800 x 1200 |
Gentle fountain in the middle of the Colonnade splashes late on a Friday night. (September, 2008)
1800 x 1200 |
An evening view of the University of Illinois Springfield campus colonnade and fountain.
1800 x 1200 |
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Tile floor of the pool in the fountain near the Tainan train station as you walk toward the university and shopping areas. Taiwan.
(July, 2004)
2560 x 1600 |
Here in the Japanese garden of the San Antonio Botanical Gardens (in Texas) I admired the afternoon sunlight on this grass wall.
(January, 2006)
1600 x 1000 |
A carpet of flowers in the English gardens at the site of the lost Roanoke colony in North Carolina.
(April, 2006)
2400 x 1500 |
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Some cattails growing in central Illinois, in the Glacier Moraine park, on New Year's Eve (December, 2004)
1600 x 1000 |
A painting of the cabin in the Yukon Klondike where John (Jack) Turner and Ruby Daisy Iffland Turner lived, and where my grandma Nel and Great Uncle Tom lived as young children.
1264 x 790 |
This is the shaving mirror used by Abraham Lincoln. It's in his bedroom in his home in Springfield. The wallpaper is a modern copy of the exact pattern the Lincolns had in their bedrooms.
1600 x 1200 |