This project is sponsored by Ryan Mortuary and All Saints Catholic Church. Steve Ryan has come out each day to say hi and watch our progress. Scott Ryan has been coming out and taking pictures too. I show some of them further into the journal. Thanks, Scott!

Visit their website at http://www.ryanmortuary.com/

The setting here is beautiful. Very soporific and restful. There is something about the Great Plains that is calming and easy going. In image above, you can see a large grain elevator to the north, where the harvest is stored until ready to be shipped to market. This slab is 50 feet across - substantially wider than the usual area we are given in which to cut the labyrinth. We are making the standard Chartres replica, 42 feet across.

This is the view to the east. The setting is very rural. Noise and disturbance is all in the far, far distance. It's quiet, with birds singing, and cicadas whiring and the wind singing to us. I found several trails of muddy quail foot prints crossing the slab. Our friend Andrew, just to the left of the trailer, is helping.

My Mom lived here back in the late 20's and early 30's. She emailed me: "I went to Bartlett Grade school to Kindergarten, and to Franklin (on 9th Street) until 5th grade.

It was a neat town and I loved it.....Went to church at Christ Cathedral as they marched the St. John's boys to church each Sunday. So me and my friends all sang in the choir (I was a monotone). We would sit up in the choir stalls and oogle the St. John's boys.....Life was good!!!!!"