Daily Photo

Valerie Everett took this in Zionsville, a small town of 9,000 people in Boone County, Indiana. (No relation to Old Zionsville in Pennsylvania.) A quiet, clean suburban Midwest town. Abraham Lincoln stopped by on a whistlestop tour in 1861 and nothing has happened since.

This is from a fountain and statue business that has since gone out of business. Looks like brass. You can see Valerie’s other Zionsville photos, including many statues, in the Flickr set.

Watch it when taking your camera out in the cold. Batteries cool down and badly lose capacity, condensation can foul up the mechanisms if you bring it back inside and it reheats too quickly. Just like glasses fogging. If you temperature-cycle it a lot, most compact cameras have a waterproof case available that doesn’t get in the way of the lens.

Photo: “I’m too sexy for the snow” by Valerie Everett, taken 22 December 2007 with a Sony DSLR-A100. CC by-sa 2.0.

So. What’s happened in Zionsville lately?