Duane McGuire Blog

I published this on Facebook at "You Know You Grew Up in Raymond..." It was a fun post with lots of

It was a warm summer day and my brother Bob and I were trying to convince our parents that we needed to cool off. My uncle Mart had an old row boat. We hoped we could make a float trip down the Tippecanoe River.

Over the years, I've created lots of content on Facebook. In the past few days, I've spent time

It's done. Steps for the east side of the deck. The deck was completed 5 years ago. Pandemic =

I completed my second garden peace pole today (blue); the yellow pole was completed last year.

Showing off some of Terri's work

You might say that I've been thinking about building some steps on the east side of the deck for a

Terri uses her museum affinities and lifetime of experience to trap me at the Museum of Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship in Carlsbad, CA.

Looking for peace? Take Terri to the beach!

Views of Zion Canyon after a stop in Beaver UT Vestibule of post office at Beaver. One of hundreds

Art of the trip - Friday 9/21/2018 at Twin Falls, Idaho. Well this was unexpected. We were supposed

Art of the trip - Tuesday 9/18/2018 at Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland

A nice day to share with "old friends" on Whidbey Island, WA

Oh yeah, we still know how to have fun. Pedaling a railcar at Joseph Branch,

Utah, we have missed you; it's so nice to be back in our home state. We've had some great

On our return trip, we decided to see if there were any garden model railroads anywhere near. We

Palo Duro Canyon, south of Amarillo, Texas, is not the Grand Canyon, but it certainly is grand!

Crystal Bridges was not a place that was even on our radar two weeks ago. Some things, people, and places are simply meant to come your way.

We decided to spend a little time at the Center of the Universe today. In downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma,

The Kraus House, in St. Louis, is a Frank Lloyd Wright home built in the 1950-1960's. It is much

Hannibal, Missouri is the home town of Samuel Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain. The characters in his novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

St. Louis is a surprising place. The city museum has a rooftop ferris wheel and is filled with

It is always a treat to tour a Frank Lloyd Wright home. The Dana-Thomas home in Springfield,

Abraham Lincoln lived in Springfield, Illinois for much of his life. The National Park Service is

Yesterday found us in Loretto, Tennessee, where my great-grandfather John Henkel immigrated with