WHEN YOUR OPTIONS ARE LIMITED

There's a sort of dopey saying that if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Life hasn't given me Covid 19 as of this writing but it's not doing any good for mobility. The blog is a hungry beast and I need images to feed it. Look more carefully. This is just my neighborhood, with the sunset making a convenient St. Louis-henge.         

OUR BETTER ANGELS

How much more pleasant than the pair of demons that guard entrances in some cultures. This is a shop on McPherson in the Central West End. It's closed, of course.      

YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD CITY DOWN

Quiet but not altogether empty on Washington Avenue. I've never seen the giant flag of the City of St. Louis hanging over the streets. It's a pretty good one with sharp graphics, references to the territory's French and Spanish heritage and the meeting of the waters, the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi.

I hear that the city police have blocked off several of the roads in the city parks to auto traffic and St. Louis County has closed its parks altogether due to blatant disregard of the distancing rules. May need to go check this out.         

THURSDAY ARCH SERIES

I built up some inventory of pictures before everything went to hell and we're not on lockdown anyway. This is a better than average Arch picture. The two people at the bottom give some scale but the photo was taken with a wide angle lens and the monument is even bigger than it looks.

We don't know anyone who is sick but I have a personal worry. Some of you know that I have rheumatoid arthritis. It's been well-controlled on medication for a long time. One of those drugs, hydroxychloriquine, has some very preliminary indication of helping with Covid-19. So, stupid people are hoarding it, inappropriate prescriptions are being written and the national pharmacy chain I use has been out of stock for six days. Don't know when or if they will get any or what will happen to my joints if I run out. I've got some left but not much. Maybe it will show up or my rheumatologist will have a suggestion. Didn't see this one ocming.            

CITY DAILY PHOTO APRIL THEME DAY - SCHOOL

Ah, alma mater. I got both of my degrees here. There wasn't much of a reason for coming. I went to a Jesuit high school in the Bronx. They steered us to Jesuit colleges. This was the one farthest away from home that let me in. Bingo, I'm a St. Louisan. 

I'm the oldest of four children. When I chose a college a thousand miles away from home my mother thought her children hated her. Two years later, my sister enrolled in the more prestigious school across town, Washington University. Then my mother was sure we hated her. The younger two, however, stayed in the northeast.

The campus is almost unrecognizable from my days there - so much bigger and so many new buildings. But, gee, it's only been forty six years.