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photography, rural Illinois, travel cumberland county, fair, illinois

Day Five: Thursday, August 27, 2009

September 1, 2009

Thursday we got moving rather slowly, for some reason. But we got over to Grandad’s house to take hike through his pasture. He owns about 75 acres (next to the house) and it is beautiful land. Meadows, wildflowers, woods — and the very loud buzzing of happy bees. It was very hot and difficult walking.…

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photography, rural Illinois, travel cumberland county, fair, illinois

Day Four: Wednesday, August 26, 2009

September 1, 2009

We piled in the car to go to Moonshine for lunch. On the way, we stopped in at the hardware store. Steve asked me to show him the grain elevator that I had shot the day before and we went for a little walk. Then he pulled out a little box and proposed. So newly…

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photography, rural Illinois, travel cumberland county, fair, illinois

Day Three: Tuesday, August 25, 2009

September 1, 2009

Rachael and I were up before most of the people in the house so we went to Hidalgo and did some photographing of the grain elevator (in service into the 1980s) and the abandoned store across the street. It looks like the merchandise is just sitting there, from the late 1950s. We really wanted to…

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photography, rural Illinois, travel fair, illinois

Day Two: Monday, August 24, 2009

September 1, 2009

Today was the first real day of the fair. We tried to get there early enough to see the llama show but the fair book printed the schedule incorrectly. So we took a few minutes to check out the various barns. The cow just licked Duncan. All the thoroughbred races were combined into one day…

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photography, rural Illinois, tumblr barn, fair, greenup, keyser

Day One: Sunday, August 23, 2009

August 24, 2009

We arrived late in the evening on Saturday after a very easy trip. Driving long distances apparently gets easier as you get older. My cousin Ross graciously put us up again. And after a happy reunion with Keyser the dog, we went to bed and slept well. It’s been in the low 60s at night,…

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