Disorientation

Running low on material but still finding images from the Ice Carnival a couple of weeks ago. This was a strange amusement, apparently a double sphere, the inner and outer connected by these green pins. Someone gets in and then runs like crazy down a track bordered by inflated tubes, trying their best not to fall or go upside down. It's actually a race. There is a second sphere, not shown here, in which another contestant tries to go down and back more quickly.

I don't think there was a prize for the winner but second place got a packet of Dramamine.
                        

The theme for City Daily Photo bloggers on February 1 is

"A Scene from a Cafe or Coffee House."

7 ans...

Seven years of VDP... The exhibition draws to a close with later funerals. This is a reconstitution of Louis XVIII's funeral in 1824, with XIXth century replicas of the original emblems of the monarchy that are kept in the Louvre museum.

Sept ans de VDP... L'expo s'achève avec des funérailles royales et républicaines postérieures et une magistrale reconstitution de celles de Louis XVIII en 1824 avec des répliques du XIXème siècle des emblèmes et ornements royaux, les originaux étant conservés au musée du Louvre.

Trois parapluies...

Three brollies... Can you spot all three? And a courageous cyclist about to ride off...

Vous les voyez tous les trois ? Et une courageuse cycliste sur le point de reprendre son vélo...

The Sand Castle

Slowly washing away as the Thames tide rises. The sand castle makers make grand creations on this sandy patch of the river at Gabriel's Wharf in the expectation of coins tossed to them by passersby. Then hours later stand by and see their work washed away.

Closed For The Season

One of STL's favorite institutions is the Muny Opera in Forest Park. It's America's largest outdoor musical theater with 11,000 seats. There are 1,500 free seats for every performance, first come, first served. 

The repertory tends to be oft-recycled Broadway shows. Mrs. C and I haven't been since we were newlyweds. By this time, if I had to sit through The Music Man on a sweltering St. Louis summer evening it might take 76 trombones to silence my rage.

The theme for City Daily Photo bloggers on February 1 is
           "A Scene from a Cafe or Coffee House.”