Trying to think outside of the box today. From an old photo taken at STL's Annie Malone parade.            

A bit more of the black Masons. There seem to be a number of different lodges and I've seen these men on their antique fire truck b...

We just finished the three day Memorial Day weekend in the US. Many of us are having trouble getting getting back into the swing of wor...

I got you - babe? Covered? In the palm of my hand? American lawyers have to market themselves. My tiny boutique firm works on it, or el...

One of my favorite parts of the Annie Malone parade is the black Masons. The organization was founded in 1784 as a reaction to racism ...

Very late post today. Once again, a day when more people wanted a piece of me than there is me to go around. Plus my back is some worse...

Running a bit low on material - just too much time at work, none left to go out and shoot. So, a motorcycle cop at some parade working ...

Let's make a projective test out of it. What do you see? I'll give you one hint: it's in a parade. More details later.   

Americans all see plenty of lawyer advertising. It's a bit of an oversimplification but years ago the Supreme Court ruled it is a m...

St. Louis loves parades and we throw in anything that can roll or walk. Always motorcycle police, fire trucks and the state highway pat...

Yes, a llama in Market Street. We know all about llamas . From the Annie Malone parade, seen some years in these pages .

I oft en have what psych types call loose associations, some thing making a person think of some thing else that is not obviously rel...

We got a lot of Shriners around here. It's a branch of Freemasonry. This being St. Louis, we have black Shriners and white Shriner...

Scenes from the Annie Malone parade. The young man at the top likes his brand identification. He's not off to play a chukker, th...

At the Annie Malone Parade yesterday, a favorite annual photo op. The Annie Malone Children and Family Service Center has done a great...

. A last picture from the Annie Malone Parade. Tomorrow we turn to Memorial Day weekend events, starting with the Bluesweek festival....

. Parade viewers last weekend on the granite front of a 1930s courthouse. I like the formal composition, the lack of engagement by al...

. Spectators at the Annie Malone Parade. Thesis and antithesis, but what's the synthesis? Some readers may have noticed that ...

. Each may the Annie Malone Parade comes to downtown St. Louis. The foundation she established in 1888 is a leading provider of soci...

. Dale Chihuly is easily the best known and most popular glass artist in the U.S. His sun gates flank the rose garden at our beloved Misso...