After lollygagging around all morning, I smacked myself the way Gibbs does his staff on NCIS and did some errands in and around taking the following photos. First is the huge mural on 13th Street I had mentioned in the Kerrey Bridge photo set, seen there at a distance, done by a Philadelphia artist, Meg Saligman, with local help. I barely parked long enough to get the photos, the complete-mural one out the window while I was waiting at the stoplight. Hope they tear down the ugly building blocking the view across the street before the new stadium goes up. I know Peter Kiewit is at the left edge, then a waitress. At the right of the waitress' head is the iconic College World Series sculpture, The Road to Omaha. At the north end, seen in the stoplight photo, I make out St. Cecilia's twin spires and perhaps the Nebraska capitol in the distance, all under the arch. The rest of the figures I can't remember, but everything is Omaha-related. And those are trees in front of the mural, not weeds.
Next was Lauritzen Gardens' annual poinsettia extravaganza, with the trains but not the buildings of the Model Railroad Garden this year. As some of the photos show, tree poinsettias rise above the banks of various poinsettias, all enough to instill the holiday spirit. Sleighs full of large gifts are featured too.
A novelty this year was Winter Rose in three colors, very full and smaller, looking more like dahlias, the white, pink, and red ones below.
And, finally, the Durham's Christmas tree in its Art Deco surroundings, the ticket windows at left festooned for the season.
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