Cured!
Finally conquered "Global Warming".
"Deep Freeze Slams U.S. East".
"Forecasted Lower 48 average temperatures for the next two weeks will be well below the 30-year average"
Enjoy.
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Apology Of Sorts
I find myself letting my anger at what's going on in this country slip too much into this site. I should apologize for that - there are enough blogs around that focus on politics and I don't really wish this site to become one of them.
I am considered hard right by most people on both coasts; I'm right of center hereabouts.
So what. I don't apologize for that; my apology is for letting it spill over to extremes here.
On this site, I don't care about your politics.
Kick me back out of the gutter if I get too political; let's look at more pretty pictures and the good things happening around us.
Not that it changes my opinions on things going on ... or not going on.
Or probably not entirely stop me.
Horace H. Rackham Memorial Fountain
aka "The Bear Fountain" at the Detroit Zoo.
Located in the center of the 125 acre Detroit Zoo (actually in Royal Oak, at 10 Mile [now I-696] and Woodward, 2 miles north of the Detroit city limits), the Bear Fountain was sculpted in 1939 by Corrado Parducci and formally named after the first president of the Zoological Society, Horace Rackham. Rackham was a Detroit industrialist (and a lawyer for and one of the original stockholders in Ford) in the days when Detroit was a far different city than it is today. He sold his 50 shares of stock for $12.5mil in 1919. Mr Rackham died in 1933. His widow provided the funds to create the fountain.
Parducci commented: "I didn't like that. I made it against my will. They wanted, Mrs. Rackham was sold on that, bears"
(He may not have liked it, but I'm willing to bet he liked the commission ...)
The two 10 foot tall bronze bears stand in the middle of a 75,000 gallon pool. The pool - a bit larger than 3 Olympic pools - is a splash pool in the summer and an ice skating rink in the winter. It is one of the more popular items at the zoo.
My grandparents lived within walking distance of the zoo; I spent a lot of time there. Admission was free back then ... not now.
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