Day 218 > Echinacea Purpurea

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Day 217 > In Deepest Sorrow

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New Chicago Trip Photos Up on Flickr

For anyone interested, I've finally gone through about 3/4 0f the Chicago trip pics and posted the best on my Flickr page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tditz_gb/

Enjoy.

Day 216 > A Plea Yet Unanswered

She's waited nearly 100 years, a monument of patience.

Day 215 > St. Johns 1:38am

I've sacrificed quite a bit in the name of this photo project in the past 215 days...time, money, my mental health...
Now, as I write this at nearly 3am after returning from an after midnight shoot, I can add SLEEP to the list. However, I do enjoy the aloneness a sleeping city offers so I don't really mind the loss.

Day 214 > A Black Bouquet

Amid the beauty of the color and light.... a dark side... jagged edges... a black bouquet...

Day 213 > Only Nature Is Eternal

Allouez Cemetery; Green Bay, WI
I often wonder on my frequent visits to cemeteries here and there what will have become of such places a thousand year from now. Will they remain as they are today or will there be nobody to tend to the mowing and pruning and general upkeep that maintains their park-like appearance?
This little bell flower growing up between iron and concrete may seem fragile by comparison to it's surroundings but given time the iron rail will corrode and fall. The concrete will crack and crumble. Yet the little purple flower, a foot soldier in the land's reclamation, will remain to flourish amid the ruins of what once was. Only nature is eternal...