Happy 53rd Birthday, Greg!

Today we celebrated our friend

Greg's 53rd birthday!

Sandi puts the finishing touches

on her cherry-chip cake!

Sandi claims the two squiggles

lofting their way skyward are

balloons: Greg has another

interpretation...

Hail, hail! The gang's all at

Schiller Park in German Village.

The birthday boy!


Lynn, Suzan, and Josh


Chris, Susan and Rhonda

Renee, Jackie, and Daryl

Daryl, Renee, Alan, Chad, and Jackie

Chad, Jackie, Daryl, and Alan

Suzan, Josh, and Lynn

Jim

Sandi

Chris

The humidity wreaked havoc

on Sandi's birthday wishes.

Steve

Max...He never smiles...

Rhonda and Sandi corn-hole.

April finds her way to the party.

Jim and Steve

Greg, Josh, and Suzan

It was a fun day.

Happy 35th, Greg!

Columbus Statehouse Interior - April 26, 2008

Bob Dudics and I started our

day at the Viking Festival in

Ashville, OH. It was...

interesting.... :)

(For more details, just ask.)

Since it only took an hour to see

everything at the festival, we

decided to go to the Capitol

for a more impressive day.

We joined a group of school kids

for the last tour of the day.

inlaid marble representing

OH counties...

the current gift shop

an old stagecoach with a

milemarker out front...

a modern elevator amid

an ancient setting

Because the Capitol was built

pre-electricity, much natural

light was included in the

original architecture.

This skylight once was

open to the outside.

Mr. Husted's office

There are more pictures of the

Rotunda or Crypt below.

This is the spot where Lincoln's

body lay in state after his

assassination on its trip

home to Illinois.

The House of Representatives

Greek influences in architecture

This is the dome of the Rotunda.

I have to say I found it interesting

that PINK was a masculine color

at the time of the completion of

the Statehouse. Because red

was regal but paints couldn't

be mixed to represent that dark

of a pigment, much of the Capitol

is painted, as it was originally,

in shades of light blue and pink.

Vicksburg, MS, remembered...

Everything here is symbolic,

from the number of hexagons

in the center to the number of

points. Click on the photo to see

if you can find replaced marble.

(HINT: it's grey.)

pigeons remembered...