The flowers are from our prairie restoration project.

This is the stone church that was built by the immigrants.  It is interesting in that almost none of the construction materials traveled more than about 5 km.  The roof REALLY needed repair.

The steeple is in dreadful shape.  In some cases, the timbers have rotted through.

I got to design the replacement "vaerhane" (Norwegian for weather rooster) based on old photos (thank you photoshop) and a simple 3d illustration program.

Here is the proposed vaerhane photoshopped onto the completed steeple roof.

The big steeple parts were delivered to the site today.  Hopefully they will be craned into place next week.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"