GOOD MORNING

Aren't you glad you live many millions of years after the last really big meteor hit the earth? Another one from the Dinoraurus exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo.                

DON'T FEED THE CHILD TO THE DINOSAUR

Some people don't have any sense. I wouldn't let my dog, if I had a dog, which I don't, this close to the chompers of a T. Rex. But of course it's all fake, unless the scientists at nearby Washington University have made a remarkable breakthrough. It's been a couple of weeks now but we took Ellie to this new thing at the zoo they call Dinoraurus. There are a number of these creatures that can shake around a bit and make fearsome noises. Kids love it.                     

A LAST BIT OF FOLDED METAL

I gotta get out on the street and shoot some new material but for today one last work from the Origami In The Garden show will suffice. This is the last one you pass as you are about to leave. I interpret is as a crane on a crane on a crane on a base.             

AND YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT LOCUSTS

The eastern half of the United States is about to be infested by the 17 year locust explosion. Home town boy William S. Burroughs, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs, has other bugs to worry about, possibly from all those things he self-injected. At least he is protected from substances in the air.

His bust is in the Central West End, across the street from that of a much better behaved but no less revolutionary native writer. T. S. Elliott.               

DRAINS TO RIVER

It's not unusual in this country to see a drainage grate that says No Dumping - Drains to Stream/River/Lake/Ocean or what have you. This is a storm sewer cover in my neighborhood. I assume that storm sewer runoff has nothing like the treatment of sanitary sewers and that water that comes through here will find it's way into the Mississippi. No one is going to pull this open to dump used crankcase oil but the authorities placed the cone just in case.