Just uploaded last night's images to Webshots:
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Carving
Model with carving in the background.
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota, in the form of Crazy Horse,an Oglala Lakota warrior, riding a horse and pointing into the distance. The memorial consists of the mountain carving (monument), the Indian Museum of North America, and the Native American Cultural Centre. The monument is being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain on land considered sacred by some Native Americans, between Custer and Hill City, roughly 8 miles (13 km) away from Mount Rushmore.
The sculpture's final dimensions will be 641 feet (195 m) wide and 563 feet (172 m) high. The head of Crazy Horse will be 87 feet (27 m) high; by comparison, the heads of the four U.S. Presidents at Mt. Rushmore are each 60 feet (18 m) high.The monument has been in progress since 1948 and is still far from completion. If finished, it will be the world's largest sculpture. The mountain carving was begun in 1948 by sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who had worked 
on Mt. Rushmore under Gutzon Borglum. In 1939, Ziolkowski had received a letter from Chief Henry Standing Bear, which stated in part "My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know that the red man has great heroes, too."Ziolkowski died in 1982. The entire complex is owned by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation. Ziolkowski's wife Ruth and several children remain closely involved with the work, which has no fixed completion date. The face of Crazy Horse was completed and dedicated in 1998.
Even though it is far from complete the Crazy Horse carving has become the central focus of a lucrative tourist trade with some 1.2 million visitors arriving at the site each year. The Ziolkowski family continue to laugh all the way to the bank. How many more years before the carving is finished? Some say twenty five years, while others say - never!
It Must Be Summer: It's Raining Again
So far June seems to have been fairly soggy for much of Britain. OK so we're only three days in but come on this is meant to be summer. Parts of Berkshire and Oxfordshire have now joined the West Country and are either flooded or on flood alert.
See << http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7433589.stm >> for more details.
My little bit of Berkshire has just about rema
ined flood-free but it's come pretty close in past years and I do have friends nearby who have seen their towns under considerable water in the past. You've got to feel sorry for people who got flooded out in the past, just got thier houses straight and are now facing being washed out again. Or the couple who moved into their new home last week in Somerset and the next day got flooded.
ined flood-free but it's come pretty close in past years and I do have friends nearby who have seen their towns under considerable water in the past. You've got to feel sorry for people who got flooded out in the past, just got thier houses straight and are now facing being washed out again. Or the couple who moved into their new home last week in Somerset and the next day got flooded.Here's hoping for a dry summer.
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