Today's the first day of school for most of the kids in France. Summer vacations are over. Temperatures are dropping and we're losing daylight at the rate of about three minutes a day. I'm hoping we'll have some "Indian summer" type weather before November.
Des Moines' skyline has changed a lot since I took this picture. Digitized color print, August, 1986.
This is the state capitol in Des Moines, IA, as seen from the interstate. Being from a state capital myself, I'm always curious about what the others look like. For instance, Iowa's capitol building has a dome, gilded no less. New York's capitol is one of the few that doesn't have a dome. I've never made a project of seeing all of them. I should count the one's I've seen. One of these days. And, yes, I consider speeding through a capital city on the interstate as "seen."
