Hadley-Ives Family Photographs from 2011. Page 1. |
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Page 1 features photographs from February through early April. |
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| This is a bowl made by someone in the Mississippian culture, which flourished around 1050-1200, but existed for a couple centuries before that time, and lingered on in decline for a couple centuries after that era. |
The Mississippian culture had artists who produced works such as these, featuring bird motifs. The bowl above seems to have a spoonbill, and the bowl on the left has a hawk or vulture, or perhaps a Thunderbird. | This is a human figurine made by an artist who lived in the Mississippian culture, a culture which spread from Oklahoma, Missouri, and Illinois throughout the wider Mississippi-Ohio River valleys, sharing some cultural values (e.g., concern about Lunar standstills) with the contemporaneous cultures of the American southwest and the earlier Hopewell people in Ohio. | |
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| The masculine and industrial north is united with the feminine and agricultural south in this mural in the Springfield, Illinois train station. Riding the train is cheaper than driving if you're just one person. |
Illinois produces coal, and here are barges full of coal floating on the Mississippi River in mid-February. That's the shoreline of East Saint Louis behind the barges and the tugboat. | This is a view of Saint Louis from the MacArthur bridge, which is the bridge Amtrak trains use. I took a train to Saint Louis in mid-February to participate in a fund-raiser for Habitat for Humanity. | |
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| A tufted puffin from the Pacific Ocean swimming in the Saint Louis Zoo. |
One weekend in February I was in Saint Louis with my family, and I had something to do at Washington University, so Sebastian and Arthur with with their mom to the zoo. | This Asian sun bear in the Saint Louis Zoo has some striking blue eyes. These type of bears are small, but they are supposed to be fairly aggressive. | |
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| Springfield had blizzard with 18-25 centimeters of snow on February 1st and 2nd, and on the 20th there were still great piles of snow in parking lots. I saw some of the last piles of snow melting in shady corners of parking lots around March 9th, even though we had very warm days in late February. |
This is a view of some grasses just south of Wabash/Stanford Avenue in Springfield (Southern View), as seen from the window of my Amtrak train. | The woman in red is Naomi Jakobsson, the state representative from the 103rd district, which includes Urbana, Illinois. I met Naomi when she was running in the primary in 2002, and I remember she came knocking on our door once or twice while campaigning. I like her. Here she is chairing a committee in the state house. | |
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| Here are some of my social work students standing in the Illinois Old State Capitol in Springfield. This was during advocacy day, and lines in the restaurants downtown were too long, so we took at look a the historic capitol building while waiting for the lines to shorten. |
Becky, Robyn, and the two Michelles, social work students in 2011, who were enjoying the Old State Capitol with me during NASW Advocacy Day in early March. | During Advocacy Day we went to meet Governor Quinn, or at least some of his staff. Here are some of my social work sudents in the governor's antechamber. From left to right, the students are Renee, Kat, Sandy, Kathy, Val, and Anita. | |
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| Here is Renee Fix with her mom, who works in the Stratton Office Building next to the Capitol. | A bust of Abraham Lincoln in the old state capitol building. | A painting in the governor's office, in the Illinois state capitol. I think this is a personification of the arts, or beauty. | |
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| This is a banner from the Wide Awakes, a group that supported Lincoln in Illinois politics. | This is an old political campaign poster from the election of 1860 hanging in the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. | One of the chipmunks who live in our yard came out to get seeds under the bird feeders around February 20th. | |
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| This is our pet rabbit, who turned 3-years old this February, making him about 36-years-old in rabbit-years. |
Our rabbit, Snowball loves to eat bread, and he got into the pantry and crawled into this bag to get at some buns. | This is a rabbit who frolics in our backyard. This is an Eastern Cottontail rabbit. They are very common here in central Illinois. | |
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| On Naw Ruz (March 21st) I noticed the maple trees in our backyard were in bloom. This is the Silver Maple's blooms. |
These are the Red Maple's blooms on March 21st. | Maple trees are among the first trees to bloom in the spring. | |
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| The Year 168 in the Baha'i Era begain this March on Naw Ruz, and we had presents. |
Sebastian and Arthur open their Naw Ruz presents. | Jeri loves hyacinths, and so we grow some in our backyard. | |
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| I like daffodils and tulips. These are some of the flowers in our backyard at the end of March and the First of April. |
Our daffodils were looking good this year. I took this picture on April 1st. | This is a lovely pink and salmon colored hyacinth growing in our backyard flower garden on April 1st. |
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Photographs from 2011
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