Bean Cloud Gate
The “Bean” (Cloud Gate) sculpture in downtown Chicago, by Anish Kapoor, is one of the most beautiful and engaging contemporary sculptures in the world.
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Colored Pencil Drawings
This series of Tom's drawings are all Prismacolor colored pencil on smooth bristol board, done in studio. This is a new medium for Tom upon retiring from his industrial design career. The over 200 colors available greatly expand the possibilities of the pencil as a medium, in comparison to his life-long use of graphite pencil for black and white plein air drawing expression.
Fallingwater House
Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1939 masterpiece of residential architecture in Bear Run Pennsylvania, is arguably the most important contemporary house in history.
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Alden Dow Home Studio
The 1941 Alden B. Dow home and studio, in Midland, Michigan is one of the most important contemporary American buildings of the 20th century.
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Bodie Ghost Town
Bodie Ghost Town in the California Bodie Hills, east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, is the most extensive ghost town I have ever visited. It is spooky but very interesting.
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Old Iron Ore Dock
The Old Iron Ore Dock in Marquette is one of my favorite structures in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It was built as a gigantic, purely functional iron ore gravity feed dock on the waterfront in 1931. Decommissioned in 1971, it is now a hauntingly beautiful, symmetrical, cathedral-like edifice to the iron mining industry in that region.
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Sam Clemens Mark Twain Shack
Sam Clemens/Mark Twain’s 1862 silver mining shack is in Unionville, Nevada. He lived there only a short time, apparently hated mining, and continued west.
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Tufas Mono Lake
The Tufa towers in Mono Lake, California are amazing sculptural rock formations formed under water as calcium bubbled up through carbonate-rich lake water. They are now exposed as Mono Lake has been significantly drained for human uses.
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Elephant Rock Valley of Fire
Elephant Rock in the Valley of Fire in Nevada is the most zoomorphic rock formation I have ever seen. It is larger than an elephant, maybe the size of a mastodon.
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Bristlecone Pine
The ancient Bristlecone Pine is among the longest-lived life forms on our planet (4,000+years). It was magical to visit them in the White Mountains of California at the 11,000 ft. above sea level tree line.
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Turku & Buddy
Turku and Buddy were our semi-tame wild tom turkeys, who would come right up to us for treats. Turku was healthy but Buddy caught a tumor causing virus called Lymphoproliferative disease. Eventually Buddy died in our yard and Turku soon after drifted away and did not return.
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