full image, taken on the b+w setting with a sony dsc w300, not tinkered with.
brilliant! very nice , thank you!
we had a great place that the state just tore down.
it was the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Manor.
the owner also built this
http://mayslakepeabody.com/content/about/which is still standing.
there is a small lake (mayslake) that separated the main estate from the fryer housing.
unfortunately the tax payers of dupage county (the county i live in) paid out 17.5 million dollars in 1992 (this doesn't include the efforts in over the decade since to raise even more money) through the forest preserve to save and restore the friar manon to only have it torn down in the last 2 months.
really really sad to me, I used to spend a lot of time there in the summer and fall, it was a nice forested area with a really neat vacant building that no one hardly ever ventured to, 99% of the people stayed on the main kept grounds. So i lost my own -secret garden- so to speak ...
i'm also a fan of old grave yards. been know to travel hours just to see old sites in the middle of nowhere usa.
