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05-06-2011, 07:21 PM #1
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05-06-2011, 11:51 PM #2
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Nice pics Mr Bloom.
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05-07-2011, 04:46 AM #3
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Wow, great photography! What a beautiful ride you had, your civic pride is showing and I can see why, you have a beautiful town. They are all so nice it would be hard to pick a best photo but I wish I was there to see that field of flowers, it looks breathtaking.
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05-07-2011, 06:50 AM #4
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I love that field of purple wildflowers. We don't get a lot of that out here in San Diego. Really pretty!
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05-07-2011, 07:59 AM #5
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Beautiful places to bike! I love the pictures of the brilliant blue sky with the white clouds and the pastoral scene too!
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05-08-2011, 02:59 PM #6
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Every time we passed that courthouse this weekend, we wondered: why the fish?
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05-08-2011, 04:45 PM #7
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Since most of the lakes are man-made, it's not a deep fishing tradition!
Clipped from the library website:
"Why does Monroe County have a fish on top of the courthouse?" The answer is probably because Austin Seward, a Bloomington blacksmith, wanted to put it there. Mr. Seward made the weathervane for the 1827 courthouse which was replaced by the existing building in 1906. Mr. Seward was a Presbyterian church elder and probably chose the fish because of its Christian symbolism. Also, fish were common on weathervanes in the eastern and southern part of the country."
Apparently, the fish is huge...If you don't grow where you're planted, you'll never BLOOM - Will Rogers
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