Here is my D picture.   Des Moines in the Deep Freeze.  The high this day was 5 degrees.  I don't even want to know what the wind chill was!  You can see the steam/exhaust coming out of the chimneys(if that is what they call them on Modern buildings).  The Raccoon river is almost frozen over but just to the right where it joins the Des Moines River there is a dam with lots of open water so the area is teaming with Bald Eagles!  I hope to go back in the next week to try to get some of them.  I was just too much of a weenie(plus I  just got off crutches and am still gimpy)  The round  shiny sculpture is supposed to be a baseball.  The Principal park (naming rights to one of the largest insurance companies here) is just to the right as well.  801 Grand is the large building with the pointy top and has 40 floors, our tallest.  also owned by Principal.  See the theme here?

    here you can see part of Principal park.  The weird shaped building to the far left is often referred to as the vodka bottle building due to the inset windows that apppear to be the shape of the Absolut bottle.  Much more obvious straight on!     

  as you can see,Principal dominates the downtown, but of course they also built it on a rise!.  I likes this one because of the gr**** and the windscape but I lost the vote.  Guess that is what I get when I ask others, right?  They didn't think it showed off the modest cosmopolitan atmosphere of Des Moines!