SOME COLOR, AT LEAST

I've been complaining (and boring you) for some time about how dull things are around here, how little there is to shoot. Leaden skies, temperature hovering around freezing but no snow. Blah. So I go out cruseing.  

This sign is a local landmark. Versions of it (neon in the past) had been around before I showed up here for college in 1967. All St. Louisans know it. It is on a hilltop and coming down Clayton Road or I 64 you can see it from far away. The Amoco brand has almost disappeared. It has a complicated history, now being pretty much merged into BP (which most Americans don't know means British Petroleum).  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoco                 

WITHER AMERICA

There is a show going around with very large high-resolution photographs of Michelangelo's paintings in the Sistine Chapel. It's stunning. The exhibit closes here soon and Mrs. C and I went to see it last weekend. This is from a complex panel about judgment day. It just seemed about right for the time.           

BARE METAL

My mental health is still not in tip top shape and it isn't the time for beautiful or humorous images. Besides, I have next to no new material. This bare metal tree next to the art museum, Roxy Paine's Placebo, feels about right.                

HARRISON, MICHIGAN, JULY 4, 2016

NO REGULAR POST TODAY

Like almost everyone, I am sickened by yesterday's events. I will never  forgive my senator, Josh Hawley. This  is an old picture of the dome of the United States Capitol. The painting in the cnter is called The Apotheosis of George Washington, profaned on Wednesday. https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/capitol-story/apotheosis-washington