Journey to Janesville

All aboard for a steam train ride from Glenview, Illinois to Janesville, Wisconsin!  Thousands waved, cattle and horses were spooked, and a deer tried to race with the train for half a mile.

 

Welcome aboard

 

Coffee, cranberry-oatmeal cookies, and other foodstuffs provided sustenance. 

 

 

Springtime returns to Wisconsin

Marsh marigolds

Assorted daffodils 

Say cheese

The World Championship Cheesemaking contest in Madison at Monona Terrace.  Free samples.

How sweet it is

Cranberry-filled cream puffs made by the Sweet Adelines at the Walworth County, Wisconsin fair.  Sublime.

A Summer Place

The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Walters Summer Home in Cedar Rock, Iowa

 

 

 

Winter Wonderland

The neighbors decided to build a snowman.

Holy Toledo

 

In addition to a state-of-the-art glassblowing studio, the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art has one of the world's finest collections of glass.  The Glass Pavilion was designed by Frank Gehry; the curtain walls are made entirely from glass.  In the Beaux Arts building across the street, the museum has an interesting and significant collection of other art work, including Rembrandt, El Greco, Moore, and several Impressionists.  The staff has a wonderfully upbeat attitude and admission to the museum is absolutely free.  For anyone visiting Toledo, Ohio or passing through on Interstates 75, 80 or 90, a visit to the museum is definitely worth the time.

 

 

 

 

What might have been

For many years, I wanted to visit Bartlesville, Oklahoma to see the Price Tower, the Frank Lloyd Wright high rise. The building has one stairway (outside), a hidden entrance, and tiny elevators.



When we think of Wright, we think of low horizon-hugging buildings, although Wright proposed The Illinois, a mile-high building in Downtown Chicago.

Compare The Illinois to a rendering of the Chicago Spire, which would have been about one-half mile high.  I wish the Chicago Spire had been built.  Interestingly, the site of the Chicago Spire is adjacent to the site of Jean Baptiste duSable's cabin.