Some pictures to end the month

The days are getting shorter and last weeks heat has been replaced with more pleasant weather. September starts tomorrow.

Rein Bontreger recently finished the second wall of his mural in Iroquois Park.

 There is a new bench in Milroy Park, the Egan Bench. It is located at the south end and if you sit on the bench and look down Home Avenue, you can see a bit of the house where John Egan lived.

 The corn is ripening in the fields. I think the local farmers will have a decent harvest even though it has been a dry summer.

 The frames are up for the small solar farm east of the jail. It will provide electricity for the jail and should cut the jail's electric bill, which runs about $5000 a month.

 I am not sure what is happening to the building that was once a bottling plant and later a laundry at the corner of Cullen and Clark continues. Most of the original blocks are gone but the wooden framing seems to be new.

 On Friday the Volunteer Fire Department held it annual fish/chicken fry dinner. This year it was drive-through. Cars drove to the back of the station and entered one of two doors. Once inside, people paid and were handed their choice of three pre-packaged meals: all chicken, all fish, or a combo. They then drove out the front of the building. It was quick and easy, made possible by each of the bays in the building having both front and rear doors.

Several people have commented on the Facebook links to these posts about how disappointed they are in the chip and seal job done on US 231 north of John Deere Road. I took a closer look the last time I was out there and noticed that all the old cracks and faults were clearly visible.  They did not get filled in very well.

I forgot to mention in the previous post that YNG's newly open space in the College Mall also sells truck parts, something left over from the owner's previous business, a trucking company called "How About That", or HAT.

I see that Prairie's Edge is closing.

On Sunday the Weston Cemetery Walk had its first rehearsal. This year there will be two performances, with the first in the Hall Shelter at the south edge of Brookside Park. As in the past two years, there will be actors portraying eight people buried in Weston Cemetery. Judging from the rehearsal, it should be an entertaining and informative event. Tickets are now on sale at Jordans, Brown's Garden Shop, and The Willow Switch. When you buy a ticket, you must choose either the morning or afternoon performance—the tickets are not interchangeable. The morning performance will take place in the Hall Shelter and the afternoon performance will walk through the Cemetery. The date of the event is September 19.

 In the background you can see the office of Weston Cemetery, which recently got a new coat of paint.

Can you identify this flower? (Hint: it is not a native wildflower and you might find it in gardens.)

 If you drive on North College Avenue, you may have noticed the statue shown below at the corner of College and Front/Jackson. The house on this strangely shaped lot recently got a new owner.