Fiberglass. Animals. Shapes. Trademarks Corporation

A sampling of F.A.S.T Corporation's treasure trove of goods. After driving through the Wisconsin Dells a lot of these sculptures are alive and well. Check out my previous post from F.A.S.T's fiberglass mold graveyard. Also you may be interested in my ongoing Flickr set of roadside culture—it's a good time (at least I think).

camp moorehead by-the-sea

Evidence of Camp Moorehead's off-shore fishing trips.

all images found here!

seaside

A little Estonian seaside! These were taken a couple years back with my fine friend Costance Kilgore. Shown here, is a handsome windmill (yes, he has a pipe in his mouth) and various cairns on the Estonian island, Saaremaa. Mister-windmill did have a female companion, but she's now a heap of rubble. Sad, but true.

Our warmer weather makes me long for big big water, rocks, swimming fun, travel and getting out of landlocked midwest. We booked our tickets to Wales—hurray to a soon-to-be vacation!

swimming

These beachy photos make me nutty and being in the midwest makes me long for seaside salty days.

cenotes of the yucatan + penguins of antartica

The Yucatan has no noticeable surface rivers, the limestone plateau is riddled with underground streams and caves. A cenote (from the Mayan word, dzonot) is created when a cave ceiling collapses and opens up to the surface. All of them are uniquely different. We went to two: Dos Ojos and Gran Cenote. Millions of bird and bats live in holes in the cave walls and their peeps and chirps echo throughout——this baby fell from from above and was saved from drowning.
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Last night we watched Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World. This was one of my favorite scenes.

suits

I'm in the mood to swim, preferably in the sea, but our local lakes will have to do for the majority of the summer. This photo of Lake Calhoun is from 1915 taken by CJ Hibbard.

The Jantzen yellow suit is amazing but an awkward swimmer—too much soggy wool for my taste. My new stripe suit is of brushed cotton and fits me to a tee. It was generous and grand birthday present from my sister's beau—— Jay. It was his grandmothers and hand-sewn. I'd really like to fashion this gem.

in michigan

Great old family slides from the fantastic Jenna. If I do recall they were taken from on Macinac Island at the Grand Hotel.

Plus: old michigan postcards!

dioramas

All taken from the University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History. !!!!!!!! Oh, and you must check out this amazing flicker site!

superior superior superior shore

Going through lake photos. We swam in three of the great lakes (missed out on Erie and Ontarior). Superior is truly the coldest, most sea-like, the clearest, hosts the best rocks. My favorite.

So we start back to school tomorrow. First time in six years that I've taught on a Monday--so I'm in for a true opener. The summer season isn't officially closed and I'm already in mourning.

heavy weather

A handful of romantic, seaside paintings by Tim Tozer.

sauna +sea

It was bit sauna like today--which is okay when in a sauna or by the sea. I just ran across my photos from when I was in Malmö Sweden––a couple years back. This sauna adventure was amongst my favorite. I don't think there's anything quite like this in the US.

The sea wood and gulls are from Maine——which i'll be heading to in a couple weeks.

seashore/seafun

random summetime.