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Electric Peach & Sunny Yellow
Anne is seen here rocking her new bicycling look for 2016. Her colors are electric peach (under her shell, she has a matching jersey and a coordinated base layer) and orange, as in her brand new bike...
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The Lamb in Winter
January is leaving like a lamb, but then it really hasn’t been that rough a winter. We went cycling yesterday and I definitely overdressed for the day, if not the season. Pictured are snow drops, found...
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Big Shark Bicycles
Recently, I’ve discovered the new website, nextSTL. This site seems primarily focused on local architecture, but it could be much more, I’m still getting to know it. I found its writing on the proposed...
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Global Warming?
Kali is not worried, his pool is refrigerated. He doesn’t have to worry about melting polar ice either, his food is delivered to him. He’s not like other polar bears, because he lives in a zoo, the...
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Orchid Show
Another day, another record high temperature here in Saint Louis today, 76 ºF this time. Anne and I rode through Forest Park, which was as expected mobbed and then on to Tower Grove Park. We had lunch...
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Water Skating
Another day, another bicycle ride and more nice weather, just not quite as warm as the last two days. I really shouldn’t complain, because 57 ºF, is really pretty good for February. Anne couldn’t ride...
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Hawkeye
What you miss, when you’re not looking, but thank goodness for Anne. Hop into the way-back machine and let’s journey back again to last Saturday, for our bicycle ride’s third photo-op. We were crawling...
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Fairy Maces
Sweet gum or more properly Liquidambar Styraciflua is a common eastern American deciduous tree. Normally, I would pay it no mind, except that at this time of year it becomes most annoying. The problem...
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Our Embattled Future Presidency
It has been a while since I’ve made a political post. Maybe it has been too long. I took the afternoon off today, to go bicycling. Leaving work at noon, I almost got caught up in the Bernie Sanders...
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Every Day Is Saturday
They say that when you retire, every day is Saturday. I have not retired yet and today is not Saturday, but it sure felt like it. I still have almost two weeks of sick leave left to burn through and …...
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The Big Short
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. – Mark Twain “The Big Short” is Adam McKay’s movie based upon the Michael Lewis book by the same...
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The Eyes Have It
I have a pretty good zoom lens on my camera, but nothing works better than getting close to your subject, so close that your subject fills the camera’s field-of-view. These photos have been collected...
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2016 STL Earth Day Festival
I went to the Earth Day festival in Forest Park. My one day of the year to revisit my hippie past. It was the usual eclectic collection of people and causes. It is always held in front of the Muny, …...
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Big Shark Bicycle
Saturday night, Anne and I attended the grand opening of Big Shark Bicycle’s new store. There was free pizza and beer to be had. It is just up the street from the house, in easy walking distance from...
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Soldiers and Sailors Memorial
Our Sunday morning in Indianapolis was dazzlingly bright and sunny and a pleasant change after Saturday’s dreary all day rain. We revisited the Wholesale District, now that we could see it in a new...
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The Art of Riding
Anne has fallen under the weather this weekend, a parting shot from those runny nosed gutter snipes. She’s off for the summer now and as soon as she is feeling better again, I’m sure that she will...
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Clang, Clang, Clang went the Trolley
On Saturday, we walked up and down Delmar, checking out the shops in the Loop. With the students all gone for the summer, it was relatively quiet. There were quite a few empty storefronts there and a...
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Little Blue Heron
I got my good deed for the day done first thing Sunday morning. I went out to get the paper, saw a baby bunny frozen in the driveway, along with not one, but two cats that were lounging around the …...
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The New Leonor K Sullivan Blvd
We just rode the MetroLink home from the grand opening of the new Leonor K Sullivan Blvd. Formerly called Wharf Street, Sullivan runs along the river at the base of the Arch. Sullivan along with the...
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Eads Bridge at Sunset
We went out to brunch this morning at a new place, at least for us, Piccione Pastry. It is located at the corner of Delmar and Skinker. I had their Piccione Benedict, which featured soft poached eggs,...
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