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Jackson Oak

Date: 09 2013
Description: The huge white oak that the Arboretum once named the Jackson Oak after a founder and benefactor of the nature preserve. The tree is dead but the trunk and ...
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Milkweed

Date: 09 2013
Description: Milkweed pods are in the foreground and beyond is an open field. A small grove of trees is on a small hill on the horizon.
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Bridge

Date: 09 2013
Description: Elevated view of University Avenue from a footbridge. The University of Wisconsin Foundation and a parking lot are on the opposite side of the avenue. A Ba...
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Another Look

Date: 09 2013
Description: View looking down through the branches of locust trees at railroad tracks that run along University Avenue.
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Waiting in Line

Date: 09 2013
Description: The bronze and plaster sculpture by George Segal depiciting five men waiting in a bread line at a door. The sculpture is on the rooftop garden of the Madis...
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Museum of Contemporary Art

Date: 09 2013
Description: View looking down at a staircase in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. On the ground floor is a wire sculpture that rises above the first landing of t...
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A Place for All People

Date: 09 2013
Description: A mural of a hummingbird, a robin, a fox, a cat, a frog, a mouse, and a turtle together in a lush grove. The mural is on the wall at the neighborhood cente...
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Sunflowers

Date: 09 2013
Description: Sunflower plant with giant weeping seed heads standing near a wire fence in a community garden in the autumn.
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Street Fair

Date: 09 2013
Description: People walking on the street, some wearing costumes, at the Willy Street Fair. Behind them are booths along the curb.
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At Water's Edge

Date: 09 2013
Description: View from shoreline of a lake. In the foreground is the trunk and branches of a fallen tree resting low in the rocks and grasses. In the distance is the fa...
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Gates of Heaven

Date: 09 2013
Description: View looking up at the facade of the synagogue known as Gates of Heaven. This synagogue has been converted over last century from a synagogue, to the Unita...
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Construction

Date: 09 2013
Description: A skid steer loader is in the foreground at a demolition site, with a construction worker standing on the left surveying the site. Another construction wor...
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Hieroglyph

Date: 09 2013
Description: A sculpture of cast and welded metal is of a human figure with a raven, nestled in one of the crevices. This sculpture, created by O.V. Shaffer and called ...
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The Milwaukee Road

Date: 09 2013
Description: An old locomotive, marked as 35A, parked on railroad tracks. A chain link fence is on the left, and part of the old train depot is on the right, now servin...
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Tiger, Tiger

Date: 09 2013
Description: View through fence of a tiger walking along the a well worn path at the Henry Vilas Zoo. There is a tree in the left foreground, and more trees and grasses...
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Turtle

Date: 09 2013
Description: A small turtle moves along the sand at the Henry Vilas Zoo. Next to the reptile (tortoise) is the morning dish of nibbles. A plastic cactus is in the backg...
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Car Wash Octopus

Date: 10 2013
Description: A rotating sculpture of a smiling octopus on a sign for "Octopus Car Wash." The octopus is holding a bucket, washcloths, and a squeegee in its arms.
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At the Movies

Date: 10 2013
Description: The movie "Vertigo" playing on a big screen in a darkened movie theater. The scene captured by the camera is of a woman walking along a the edge of the bay...
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Always the Trees

Date: 10 2013
Description: Tree branches and the shadows they create frame one of the wings of the Wisconsin State Capitol building.
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Cemetery

Date: 10 2013
Description: A grove of trees growing behind a line of gravestones at Forest Hill Cemetery, and what may be an effigy mound. Fallen leaves are on the grass.

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