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A few from the Veteran's Memorial Gardans at Antelope Park, a few blocks from my house. They were taken on June 1, 2004.
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The name of every Nebraskan who lost his life in the Vietnam War is etched on this wall. |
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The band shell at Antelope Park. During the summer months they have jazz and other concerts here. I can hear them from my house. |
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The fountian and a family of swans at the little pond in Wyuka Cemetery. This is another place that was once way out in the countryside, but it was swallowed by the city many years ago. It's now right in the middle of the city with "O" street, the main east-west street through the city, running along it's southern side. Generations of Lincoln children learned to ice skate on this pond. |
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Four of the sandstone outcroppings along Antelope Creek outside of the Children's Zoo near downtown. Sandstone underlies the city. The stone, and the salt water trapped within it, are all that remain of a vast sea that once covered most of the Great Plains. The ground water under Lincoln is so salty that the city has to get it's water from well fields along the Platte River. As you can see, people have been carving their names in the soft stone, and they have been since people first came to this area. The only other substantial outcrop that I know of in the city is at Pioneer's Park. Brown is not the normal color of the water in the creek. It's discolored with the runoff from the recent heavy spring rains. |
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Just two I took of the Children's Zoo from outside the fence along the bicycle trails and Antelope Creek. One of these days I'll go in and take more pictures. |
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The Sunken Gardens in the late spring of 2004. It's closed for renovations this year and will reopen in 2005. |
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The "D Street Castle" from the front (east side) and the north. It's one of many wonderful old houses in the Near South Neighborhood south of the capital building. This was once one of the great areas of the city, but is now mostly a low income area. Some of the old houses have been kept up though. It would be a crime if we lost places like this. I will get back there to re-take the photographs in the fall when the trees lose their leaves and I can get a better view. |
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One of two old row houses turned into apartments in the Near South Neighborhood. You can hardly see the other one this time of year because of the trees. I will get a photo of it in the fall. |
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One of the many public gardens in the city. This one is on the west side of the Children's Zoo. |
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