When travelling to see something, it may or not be there anymore, or functioning. Most things are transitory. If you want a foto snap it when you can, and preferably near its completion. The United States is not a land of maintenance. Some times serendipity will you allow you to find something novel. If something is unveiled, or made available to the public, don't wait too long.
Pollarded sycamores (i think). Cleveland Museum of Art.
In a geometric layout of planting, and before leafing, these trees look otherworldly, or eery. Pollarding is a form of severe pruning. Upon the injury, many new branches sprout. Agriculturally, these branches good be harvested. In willows, it would be uses in thatching.
American Locomotive #63 of Schenectady New York. 1940. Gambier Ohio.
Steam locomotives fascinate. It is a boiler on wheels. There is beauty and drama when one is in movement. This one last operated in 1959, and has had several owners before it rested in central Ohio. Its working life was on the docks of Mobile. Since 2001, it has been an attraction on the Kokosing Gap Trail. Gambier has been a college town since 1825. The tracks are gone, and like some other former railroads, it is now a biking, jogging, walking path. This one there has a tender, a flat bed, and a caboose.
William Severson. Hora Novem. 1982. Columbus.
Severson was a St. Louis based sculptor. He made many large metal works. This one was not the only one that involved water, and it was not the only one that was built to show the passage of time. He has a stone monument on his grave that marks a cross at noon on the equinox. This one when it operated had 32 streams of water meeting at the center. It was a solar water clock.
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