Today my wife had us drive over to Robert Allerton Park southwest of Champaign, Illionis. The park is a 5,000 acre estate donated to the University of Illinois by Robert Allerton. Includes his 50 room mansion, gardens, statuary, forest trails and wonderful farmland that the UofI Ag Department takes care of.

The peonies were in bloom and Allerton has a wonderful flower garden. Attacted are just five pictures of the flowers out of the dozens of varieties they have.

Part of our continuing to celebrate our 50th "Meeting Anniversary" (yesterday). :)

M loved them too. Can she have permission to paint them, intellectual property rights and copyright and such?

I'd feel honored if she would. When she's done, take a picture and post for us if that's okay with her.

M would have loved Allerton and seeing the thousands upon thousands of flowers in bloom, not to mention the hundreds of other non floral subjects worth painting.

Got a nice picture of a "red-wing blackbird" this morning when I went for a walk. Those red shoulder feathers are quite striking. This feller was nice enough to pose for me. :)

He was co-operative, wasn't he.

Something I saw today.
It advances three wires 3.375" (8.57cm) distance in a 105 millisecond window, holds it for cutting and advances again. :)

And it works. :D

Wow! Just what I was looking for! :nana:

And here, I was thinking I'd like a new car. :shrug:





JK :)

:nod:
And it does it 145 times each minute.

Next month I will document my visit to Mecca.

:nod:

So when you get into a fight, you can add some Haji Bargy?

Allerton Park
 

Here's just a very few pictures from our delayed anniversary get-away trip to Robert Allerton Park southwest of Champaign, Illinois. We spent two nights at the guest house (a seven bedroom home) and were there from 6-29 until 7-1. Had a great time. We love Allerton Park, a 5,000 acre estate donated to the University of Illinois.

The first picture is of the Allerton's 50-room mansion taken across from his private lake; next is the guest house we stayed at. Third is a picture of a den with the painting of Robert Allerton (age 24) on the wall. Fourth is one of the many beautiful flowers growing on the grounds and the fifth is of the Allerton's stable.

Here's a few more from Allerton Park that I hope you'll enjoy.

First, another beautiful flower; then, the statue of the "Sun Singer" which measures 35-40' from the bottom of the base it rests on; and, a vase of flowers that one of the Allerton directors gave us for our anniversary. Over that past couple of years we've made good friends with her and she was thoughtful enough to do that. :)

We took between 300 and 400 pictures, so these few give only a small idea of the beauty of this estate. This could be a potential PAGAN site some day. ;)

5473 is one weird looking flower. Do you know what it is?

I was hoping you could tell me. :shrug:

It is kind of neat, though, isn't it? :)