Grain Storage, With A View

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The top photo didn't inspire me but it got quite a few views on Flickr. That made me decide to try it here and set it in context.

It is a grain elevator complex beside the Mississippi in East St. Louis, Illinois. I was standing immediately to the south in the park surrounding the Malcolm Martin overlook that faces the Arch. The elevator has a long, complex mechanism that reaches across the levee to push grain in or out of barges (not sure which). We'll have a proper Arch picture tomorrow.

A Last Note From Kansas

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This is the last of the photos from Kansas shot last weekend. This is the grain elevator in Hanover, the town where my mother-in-law lives. It's like the gold depository for the local farmers.

A NOTE ABOUT YESTERDAY'S POST: there is something in the top picture I didn't notice. I mentioned in Monday's post that my wife is the great granddaughter of Juergen Kruse, who emigrated from Germany to the US in 1858. She noticed that Juergen's tomb is in that photo. It's one of the tall ones, just right of center. If you look carefully you can see the name Kruse near the base.

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STL DPB On The Road: More From Hanover, Kansas

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Kansas: grain elevators, railroad tracks, big sky. Post uploaded from the airport in Lincoln, Nebraska, on my way home.

America's Breadbasket

Part of he Farmers Co-op grain elevator in Hanover, Kansas. It looks both sculptural and industrial. One of the nice things about driving around Hanover taking pictures is that whenever a car or pickup goes by in the other direction the drivers always wave hi, despite the fact that they have no idea who I am.

WHAT I DID LAST NIGHT: Stopped in Kansas City for the night on my way back to St. Louis and went to dinner in the new Power and Light District. Wasn't that impressed. A little two corporate, a little too plastic and they won't allow big cameras in the central enclosed plaza. They're no fun.

TOMORROW: Probably a little more prairie grass.