We discovered this sign on an empty lot here in Nauvoo.
Interesting words don't you think? "Self appointed body guard for Joseph Smith."
Well, he did love Joseph.
Outside of Nauvoo, matter of fact everywhere the dry corn husks are being harvested. Surprise to me that it dries completely on the husk before they harvest. It is dumped into an underground conveyor system that then takes the dry corn up to the silo's.
This little guy cuts the stalks, separates the corn, blows the stalks in little pieces out the back side. The corn is stored inside a tank on the machine, then a dump truck pulls along side and the corn is blown into the truck, then to the silos. Very dry and dusty work. The harvester machine is air conditioned, work on a GPS system, and has a computer to measure the amount of corn cut per acre and the moisture content of the corn. What a day to live in such a time we have progressed to a machine that can measure all this.
Every few miles a portion of the cornfields are set aside for a cemetery. Doesn't seem to fail. Lots of small cemeteries.
The town of Quincy had a tornado late spring. In this part several of the large trees blew down. The parks department is still working on the clean up, three months later. There was quite a bit of damage to homes too. Look at the diameter of this tree.
You might be able to see some of the damage to the tops of the trees.
This was a different tree from the one above in the first picture. Still a pretty good sized trunk.
Not sure what this is. On the south side of Quincy, on a back road heading towards the Missouri border is this small granite mountain. There are several entrances to the base of the mountain. Lots of signs saying to keep out, restricted area. One of the signs says it is for long term secured storage. ??? No guards but lots of mountain to store something in, but what?
Good day, short outing on a P day afternoon.
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