| Dick's Photos of the Midwest | |||||||
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| Old farm house | Oak Openings Metropark, southwest of Toledo | On the trail in Oak Openings | Ferns, Oak Openings | ||||
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| Oak trunks in Oak Openings | Forest scene, Oak Openings | Dick in Oak Openings | Soybeans | ||||
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| Fulton County farmland | Country Road | Wheat field | Barns | ||||
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| The Butterfly House in Whitehouse is a greenhouse with over 500 butterflies flying about. You can wander around as long as you wish after paying a modest admission fee. No touching is allowed, but the butterflies often land on you. New butterflies are added each week. | |||||||
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 | In Oak Openings Preserve (trees broken off by a tornado) | Blossoms in the preserve | Sunset on the farm | ||||
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| View from a rest stop | Mississippi from Davenport | Mississippi River at I-80 | Hills and farmland | ||||
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| Duluth from the waterfront | Pond in the woods | Palisade Cliff, Lake Superior | A wedding on Lake Superior | ||||
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| Lake Superior with ship anchored outside the harbor | Looking toward the harbor and downtown Duluth | The Minnesota woods | Farmland in Minnesota | ||||
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| Mackinack Bridge | Grand Island at Munising | Campground at Germfask | Field at Ontonagon | ||||
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| The view from Wampler's Lake, Michigan | Blue Heron patrolling the lake | ||||||
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| Big round bale | Missouri River bluffs | Sunset at Devils Lake | Basalt-topped hills | ||||
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| Tree knocked down by a windstorm in a Kansas RV park | Only about 2/3 of the outer trunk was solid | Not flat, no corn, still Kansas | Cedar Bluffs along US 83 in Kansas | ||||
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| Geographic center of US marker in Kansas | A closer look | Barns next to the marker area | Along US 83 in northwest Kansas | ||||
All photos copyright © 2002-2014 by Dick Estel. Permission granted for personal use only; commercial use prohibited.
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| Artifacts 1: Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Other Stuff | |||
|  | Artifacts 2: Barns, Windmills and Water Tanks, Corrals, Fences & the Like | ||
|  | Artifacts 3: Bridges & Tunnels, Railroad, Vehicles | ||
|  | Artifacts 4: Bodie, Mariposa, Mendocino | ||
|  | Artifacts 5: Clovis, Sacramento, St. Louis | ||
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Updated November 3, 2020