The Corn Palace

Hi everyone.  Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

Yesterday was a positively dreary day here in New Hampshire (some drizzle, no sun, but lots of low clouds) and I spent about 6 hours in my happy place making art. It was the perfect way to spend  such a dark day. (Except maybe taking a nap that is.)

So you might be getting sick of my trip journal, but I am back with another page today. Today's page I made yesterday and I also have some photos to show you that inspired the page.

So let's go  to the world's only corn palace.

Before I show you anything, let me explain to you what the corn palace is. (Some of you may already  know.) It is basically a building that gets decorated with corn each summer. Here's a zoomed in example of what I mean.

I had read about the corn palace when I was a kid, and I had always wanted to see it. (It is strange what sometimes what you remember as a kid. I can even see the Weekly Reader (a kids newspaper we got in school) story in my mind even now.) Since it was right on our way as we headed back to Minneapolis through South Dakota, I told my husband we were  stopping in to see it.

(He got it because his memory was reading an article in the same school kids newspaper about the Spruce Goose, a wooden airplane build by Howard Hughes. When we could go see that in Oregon he was pretty insistent also.)

Anyhow, enough babble. Here is my page.

I decided to stick with just corn as my drawing/painting skills could at least represent that.

But here's the actual building and some other photos.

 Here's yours truly. 

 The military was theme they put up last year, and they were just starting to take it down to put up the new theme for this year.
If you look at photos online you will see these colors are pretty muted because they are faded because when they are  first put in place they really bold and beautiful.

 And a close up although the corn around it had been taken off.

 You can see the plywood underneath here.

 And inside this building is a civic center/auditorium. 

 Here's yours truly again .

And this duck shows you how they do the designs.

 There even are some designs inside the main stage part. (And lots of vendors selling souvenirs.)

These look older in design (not military) so I don't know if they are new or have been there a long time. 

 And the pillars inside were decorated in tiles to look like corn.

I really like the looks of these tiles.

And on my journal page, I did some drawing, marker coloring and painting of the corn.

I don't think this page really fits any challenge so I am not linking up, but hope you enjoyed your visit as much as I did.

Enjoy what's left to your weekend.