CITY DAILY PHOTO AUGUST THEME - FRUIT

 

My long-time City Daily Photo friends know that, given the chance, I prefer not to take the monthly theme literally. While this photo is not specifically representative of my city, it is representative of my kitchen cupboard. Which is, it turn, somewhat representative of my city. 

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KC MO

 

Family road trip today, heading for Missouri’s other major city. Mrs. C has family there and there are plenty of things for our favorite kid to do. Friday, it's about another three hours northwest to the part of rural Kansas where my wife grew up. There is a biannual get together of these descendants of the German emigre diaspora. Just bragging, but last time this Irishman won the German language quiz.

Since we recently took Ellie to New York, we are hoping for a teaching opportunity about the very different backgrounds of her grandparents and the varieties of the American experience.             

SHIPWRECK

A strange sculpture in a lonely spot near the Mississippi. It looks like the skeleton of of a wrecked boat, partly stuck in the earth. I did not see a plaque of sign describing it. The shape is unusual. Except for small personal craft, river boats tend to be rectangular and flat bottomed. Maybe it is a post-apocalyptic gesture.

This post is up late because of a new, annoying problem with Photoshop. I edit pictures as PSDs and then save as a JPG. All of a sudden, save as jpeg is not an option. I can’t find any online help and ended up using a third party website to make the conversion. Anyone know what’s going on?                     

MADELEINE MONDAY

 

Girls just want to have fun. Ellie at one of the local branches of Urban Air, a kids’ play zone that starts with a trampoline park and goes on to lots of other adventures. Ellie loves the zip line and the bumper cars, seen here. She is having her birthday party there in a few weeks.                

VANISHING POINT

A railroad line emerging from downtown, heading for the Mississippi River. If you wait long enough, you could see the Amtrak train going to Chicago.