finally a sucessful trip to beth steel today with dusty and kathryn. met them at the site around noon and headed straight to the coke plant. it was sunny when i left the house…not so once i got to the lake. clouds and hurricane winds. thankfully i left my jacket in the car when i got home last night. spent 5 hours at the coke plant. i can safely say i have shot all i can shoot at the coke plant, and i might as well just give up on the coke plant at sunset desire…tho by the time we left around quarter to 6 the sun was starting to come out. of course. but after 5 hours there, i think i’ve had enough. i will return with people who want to go but please not for 5 hrs again. we didn’t see a single sole there, and no evidence of any work beyond “slag” breaking as far as the windmills go. there were obvious changes to the rest of the site, even from 2 weeks ago with dan. continued demo of the remaining buildings and parts on the other side of the canal. i wanted to climb the big black towers, but the wind was way too scary. one of the cool things i saw this time around was the “car dumper”. i never really thought about how the coal was removed from railroad cars, but i would have thought some kind of bucket scoop shovel contraption, or something like the grain elevators. nope…the cars were moved into this big yellow cylinder thing, which i am assuming by the way everything looked, flipped the cars over, and the coal was collected in a big chute below. very cool.

new location to check out – statler theatre. looks fabulous, and apparently is wide open at the moment. but i swear someone told me about it at the terminal, probably mike, and that it was purchased…so i’m worried that the openness will quickly go away. i may try it wed/thurs if the weather is nice and i can get someone to go with me. it’s on broadway, not exactly sure where, but still…it’s broadway. i’m not taking any chances. so if anyone wants to go… 🙂

editing pics now, and pics from the wedding.