Geology-my G

 Fun amongst Friends

My F  (unless I can think of something else)

Heres my E.

Elevator in Wapello

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!

Oh to live in Iowa during caucus season.   Note the C.  Actually there are 2 others.  Candidate and Clinton. so here is my C and it's alternates.  Nary a Christmas among them.  Kathy

Much better possibilities, I think.  I took several 1 day and then today, I remembered one I also took in the time frame that might be better.  Here it is,  My B entry.  I will also give you some others since I went kind of nuts before this one.  actually I took this on my day off and was having the devil of a time trying to get a decent picture of the black cat(salem), either with Lucca or by himself.  He was so black that I couldnt get it with delayed flash, adjusting levels,underexposing etc.  any suggestions?

here are my other b attempts before I did the chosen one.

Thankful I didn't use what I thought of first?(that was a line up on empty beer bottles waitng for redemption!)  K