My Tomato Harvest, 2011

My tomato crop at its most bounteous, picked in mid October.  Despite the drought, and the heat, and various four-legged pilferers, the harvest wasn't bad. 

Williamsburg, MO

We were driving back from Graham Cave a couple summers ago, on our way to a stop at Crane's Country store in Williamsburg, when I found this old building and knew that it must be photographed.  The far-stretching cornfields and blue Missouri sky were the ideal context for such a perfect example of midwestern, roadside architecture. 

Autumn is here

This was Stewart Park late last fall.  This autumn seems to be arriving a bit earlier, but after the summer we have had in Missouri, who isn't ready for it? 

Blind Boone House and Cone

The Powhatan Restaurant, Pocahontas, Illinois

The Powhatan Restaurant, just after having had supper there.  Located in the intriguingly named town of Pocahontas, Illinois, on old highway 40, I've always been curious about this place as we have driven by on our way to Indiana.  I was not disappointed.  It's about 30 minutes east of St. Louis, and still retains the charm of a vintage, highway eatery.  Sorry, but I just had to get out of Missouri for this post.

Red Stripe, Columbia Alleyway

A summer's night on the quadrangle

I took my Access Arts photography class out for a night photo outing last week, wandering around downtown and the MU campus.  A swelteringly hot night, as seems to be the pattern right now in Missouri, but we found a few interesting things to photograph.  This is an image of the MU quadrangle, bathed in the pink, sodium vapor light that is now the ubiquitous color temperature for most night photography.