Disarranging Mine

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Hope is not a just slogan

I'm feeling hopeful. And not just for myself, but for our entire country. Hope is an investment.

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Monday, August 25, 2008

Looking up

What else?

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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Obama-Biden in Springfield event

Some random photos from Saturday's speech:

• Excellent close-up of Obama
• Obama working the crowd (check the kids)
• Biden working the crowd (Allie painted the Military Families for Obama sign)
• Someone spotted the Obamalac (we love that car)

Jerome Prophet got some photos beforehand. We're waiting for more photos from during and after.

Will Reynolds got some great photos, too. Even more.

The State Journal-Register made a cool time lapse video of the crowd coming and going for the Barack Obama and Joe Biden event on the square yesterday:

• Time Lapse (via with more photos)

Memo to the City of Springfield: Whoa on the downtown trees. Trim them. It shouldn't look like a forest.

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

1968 Remembered

Some local folks look back at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

• Former Illinois Governor Dan Walker, who actually now lives in California, points out some contrasts between those times and now: Dan Walker: A difference between young generations of '68, now
• Riot or protest? Peorians remember their experiences; JS employees have varied memories of 1968 Chicago convention
• New Berlin author saw chaos unfold at 1968 Democratic National Convention (This is Taylor Pensoneau, who wrote "Governor Richard Ogilvie: In the Interest of the State," among other books and things)
• More memories of the 1968 DNC

I was 11, going on 12, and glued to the news.

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Sunday, August 17, 2008

White puffs on blue

Taken at 11th & Stevenson, Springfield, Illinois, Monday, August 11, 2008, between 6:43 p.m. and 6:45:52 p.m.

Jerome Prophet got some shots of the same clouds (and another one). EJ photographed these clouds, too.

I took a bunch more, ten of which can be found here. The only editing I did on any of these was either auto color or auto contrast in Picasa.

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