Photo of the Day......Foyer Table Through Afternoon Door Window Light

Afternoon light through "leaded" door glass study using iPhone photo enhanced with Photoship CS5  

Photo of the Day......Historical Marker in Cimarron County Oklahoma

I don't believe any of us can truly imagine the freedom he felt.

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Photos of the Day......First Inn of Branson

I have a few more Branson Tornado Damage photos that I would like to share.  These last few photo postings will have themes.  The theme for this one is the First Inn of Branson.  I spent a good amount of time looking at this one building and I felt it alone had a survival story to tell so I gathered together the relevant photos of this building and put them into their own posting.  


The first photo is an internet download of the building as it looked before the storm hit.  The remaining photos are different views and perspectives on the damage it received.

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Photos of the Day......Branson Tornado Victims, Gawkers and Clean Up.

With this posting I have attempted to capture the people.  I have a very bad habit of concentrating too much on things and not nearly enough on people.  When you get right down to it everything really is about people.  


I suspect I might have been a subject of gawkers.  I went "whole hog".  With two cameras draped from my neck, one with a short lens the other telephoto.  I suspect I looked the part as I squatted and climbed up to get good angles.


The people who suffered the most seem to be the people who could least afford it.  The two first pictures are from the Ria Motel which houses homeless people living there on weekly rental.  Now where are they to go?  Please read this KY3 article on these very people.  


http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-tornado-takes-away-what-little-branson-homeless-had-20120302,0,5550931.story

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Photos of the Day......Tornado Damage in Branson, Missouri

I have posted a few photos of the tornado damage I saw in Branson on Wednesday afternoon.  I will post additional "themed" photos over the next few days.  The damage was extensive but also condensed within in a small area. If I was to say anything at all about these photos it would be to remind you that this was, on the overall, a small tornado.  Please click on the image to enlarge and explore. 

Photos of the Day......Tornado Damage at the Kimberling Inn Resort

I won't burden this photo blog with a lot of commentary.  Kimberling Inn has been a source of many family dinners and parties, company dinners and Christmas parties and just sitting around having drinks and good times.  Most of the buildings are destroyed, or at least beyond reasonable repair.  As you look at these photos please feel free to enlarge and look around and wonder like the rest of us how these things got where they are.  How did a whole section of roof, trussing and piping get from it's home to across the street in one piece.  Tornadoes are like tantrums they throw things everywhere with a chaotic rage.  My purely amateur guess is this tornado was not the same one that went through Branson and was an EF2 in size.   I will post my Branson tornado photos tomorrow.  I need some sleep.  


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Photos of the Day.....Over Night Tornadoes hit the Ozarks

I awoke to the news that Kimberling City and Branson Missouri were struck by midnight hour tornadoes last night.  Instead of calling I decided to drive right down first thing to check on my 87 year old mother and was pleased to see she was undamaged.  However across the bay from her home it was a different story.  

By midday I was in Branson Missouri checking on the condo property.  I found
The main drag through Branson, Music Highway 76 to be a mess and cordoned off at locations. 

My first Branson photo is the Ria Motel on Music Highway 76.   

Ria Motel before midnight last night

Ria's Motel the next morning

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