On Art, Technology and Economics
For Ohio State students the Oval is a blessing and a curse. It’s a wonderful parklike setting with plenty of green space. It’s also a huge amount of space that needs to be crossed to make it to class on time. This summer scene looks down the Oval from the High Street side with the main library in the fall distance.
The Longaberger Company headquarters is a basket, arising on the east side of Newark, Ohio.
As a long-time Newark resident, it was always amusing to watch visitors heading east on State Route 16 east of downtown. You can’t actually see the basket until you top a crest on the expressway and there it is. Experienced local drivers know to watch for brakelights as visitors try to figure out this big basket looming on the edge of town.
Getting an interesting image of the basket isn’t as easy as it sounds. While it’s tucked away along the side of an expressway, trees and traffic obscure much of the view.
Helena, Montana, is a surprising city for an Easterner.
Not very large, it sits on the eastern side of the mountain range, so for the most part it doesn’t get a lot of snow relatively speaking. But it does get cold, the the wind whips across the plains and through the valleys with a bit of chill.
I was in town on a business trip. There was a light covering of snow, but the light was rapidly starting to fade in this state capital. As I rounded a curve, I saw this image which captures the blue of big sky country and the amazing mountain ranges which loom all around.
I “think” if I have my geography correctly, that Lewis and Clark would have come out of the mountains at the gap in the far distance.