Friday, 4 March 2022

I THINK THEY WANT MORE THAN BEER

I didn't smell anything distinctive in the air, though. Limited medical marijuana is permitted in Missouri. Recreational sale and use is legal just across the river in Illinois. I assume there is a fair amount of interstate smuggling.                   

 

Thursday, 3 March 2022

YIPPIE!

Freude, schöner Götterfunken
Tochter aus Elysium
Wir betreten feuertrunken
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!

 

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

AUDREY


Occasionally I'll see someone I know when I'm shooting at the Mardi Gras parade. This is Audrey, who does a lot of the computer graphics work for Artica. She knows plenty about costume design and construction, too, and has a perfect sense of posing.

On another note, St. Louis set a high temperature record yesterday of 82F/28C. It beat the old record by 3F/1.66C. It's still winter.        

Tuesday, 1 March 2022

ASH WEDNESDAY: DIES IRAE

 

People from this group (they are always men) appear at the Mardi Gras parade every year. They flank a main street where revelers stream into the parade and party area. I have never seen anyone from the crowd interact with them. No other comment. The images speak for themselves.              


LIKE SOME PEOPLE LOOK IN VENICE TODAY

A shadowy personage walks along the route of Saturday's Mardi Gras parade. Some people in Venice, the home office of Carnival, dress in elaborate, brilliantly colored costumes. Others are grave, monochromatic, perhaps even threatening. This person took the second approach and was staring straight into my lens.                

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