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source Poppies have a long history of cultivation as an ornamental and medicinal plant, from as early as 5,000 BC in Mesopotamia. They have been found in Egyptian tombs. They are mentioned in Greek mythology, the poppy being associated with Demeter, the goddess of agriculture. Folklore has it that if poppies in fields grow bountifully, then the food crops will be bountiful as well. This is why the Oriental poppy is sometimes referred to as the corn poppy, “korn” being the Greek word for grain.

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Buy Prednisone Online Without Prescription When I decided to try to put these three photos together as a triptych, I called on the computer skills of my younger daughter. She’s not majoring in Computer Science for nothing! I have no idea how she managed to get these together. Though I might have played around with the proportions of the black framing if I’d had a clue, I’m greatly appreciative she put them together for me. The software I found on a Google search for stitching a triptych was for Windows, nothing my Mac nor I want to fuss with at the moment. Maybe someone out there knows how to make a triptych without using Photoshop. I don’t think it’s something that Aperture can do, though I may be wrong about that.

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Buy Clonazepam Without Prescription We packed a lot of shooting into the weekend, so there will be many more Door County photographs to come.

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Bradley-Sigma Phi House

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https://www.wjsmithconstruction.com/general-contractors-grifton-nc/ This immense home, approximately 10,800 square feet of space, was built as a wedding present for Harold C. Bradley, a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and his fiancee, Josephine Crane, the grand-daughter of the founder of the Crane plumbing company. Her father engaged Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright’s mentor, to design the home. George Elmslie, one of the finest craftsmen in the period, did the exterior and interior woodwork and the elegant interior furnishings. The home was constructed in 1908-09. This was Louis Sullivan’s last residential undertaking, and in it he implemented many of the ideas of Wright and other Prairie School architects.

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https://www.beyondagencyprofits.com/terms-conditions/ The home, located just south of the UW campus, was too large for the lifestyles of the Bradleys, and the size of the home made it difficult for the hearing-impaired Mrs. Bradley to supervise her young children. The Bradleys therefore sold the home to the Sigma Phi fraternity in 1915 and it remains a fraternity house to this day.

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This home was nearly destroyed by a St. Patrick’s evening fire in 1972. Only one member of the fraternity was at home during the time and he escaped without injury. However, the second floor of the house was in ruins, and the first floor suffered from water and smoke damage. Due to the generosity of A. C. Nielson, the Nielson ratings guy and an alumnus of Sigma Chi, and other donors, a substantial restoration took place. Neilson and his son, also an alum, continue to assist in the support and maintenance of this architectural masterpiece.

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Elmslie designed the fretwork of the home’s exterior, including this detail which is on the enclosed front room of the house, and originally an open sleeping porch. The home’s interior woodwork and furniture retained this design, and some of it still remains in the home.

The home was placed on the National Historical Landmark after the restoration, a designation given to only the most historically-important buildings. It really is one of the most interesting of all the Wright-inspired homes I’ve toured, and I really have to give credit to the members of Sigma Phi who are living a part of history and taking care of a national treasure.

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North Elizabeth Train Station

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On our recent trip to the East Coast, we stayed in New Jersey and took the New Jersey Transit train into Manhattan every day. Though I did miss the excitement and convenience of staying in the city, it made no sense to pay for hotel rooms for 5 people for 5 nights. Not when we could stay with family for nothing. The train we took was usually a double decker, also fun.

I couldn’t pass the opportunity to take a shadow portrait of my family while we were waiting for the train.