Sky Watch Friday

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Sky Watch Friday

Mostly clear skies looking up and slightly northeast from the Treaty Oak park on the south bank of downtown Jacksonville, FL.

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Sky Watch Friday

If you are ever in downtown Jacksonville, FL look up and search the skies for... a U-Haul moving truck!?  

Yes, they have an office downtown and there is a U-Haul on the roof of the multi-story building...

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Downtown Jacksonville Views: Part 1

Hemming Plaza as seen from the 5th Floor of the Museum of Contemporary Art.  The large blue-windowed building is the Federal Courthouse.

A large sculpture outside the entrance to M.O.C.A.

Looking up Main Street - the tall pointed building is the Bank of America Tower, formerly the Barnett Building, formerly...

Bicycles parked in front of the Main Library.

Main entrance to the Main Library... inside shots coming tomorrow.

President's Day Post

Today in the US is President's Day, a holiday (for some - schools are out but many people still have to work, including myself) in which we celebrate the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Well, I don't have pictures of either of them... but I live in a city named after a different president - Andrew Jackson:



(That's me holding a Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team cap in front of a painting of ole Andy from the Hall of Presidents in Disney World - I thought he might like to see what all his hard work earned him after 150 years...)

So while Andrew isn't honored on presidents day, I honor him anyway in my blog with a quartet of photos of the downtown of the city bearing his name, taken out the window of our moving car on the interstate last weekend with the sunlight glinting off the buildings of the northbank of the St. Johns River.

You can read about the history of Jacksonville here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida