MADELEINE MONDAY

 

We took the kid to the art fair. Her attention was, um, selective. She did, however, enjoy a ride on an Audi. It is one of the major sponsors of the fair, which may say something of its type of visitor.                     

RAINBOW PLAZA

The Saint Louis Art Fair is taking place this weekend. It's big, taking up several city blocks in the suburb of Clayton. That's become a second downtown, modern, sleek and sanitary. The fair is hard to photograph since it is very crowded on a beautiful weekend like this. What got my eye was a plaza leading to a parking garage. The design is unusual if nothing else.       

I DUNNO, IT MAKES ME THINK OF BASEBALL

It is said that necessity is the mother of invention. If so, boredom may be the father. Almost nothing going on here, just winter blahs. So I go out driving aimlessly with my camera, looking for something to catch my eye. Sometimes I get lucky. For the locals, this is at Brentwood and Forsyth in Clayton.            

Clayton

Still inching my way forward through The Lou's September and October events. I've gotten to the Clayton Art Fair, one of our two big outdoor exhibitions, held three weeks ago. Clayton is an inner suburb, seat of St. Louis County and, in a way, a second, sanitized downtown. The work on display there tends to be of a high level of craft and lacking in originality.

The best photos are in the details. Susan Stone was there, of course (she's always there, everywhere). The still life in the second picture was just sitting on a table in front of me. I made no attempt to arrange it but I suspect someone else did. 

Currier & Ives In The Midwest

Looking west from the same golf course. The STL city limits are a short distance behind Skinker Boulevard, the street visible toward the bottom of the frame. Beyond is St. Louis County - suburbia - and the city of Clayton, Missouri. It's sort of a second, more sanitary downtown, newer, with the County's court system, awash with law firms, very expensive homes (by our standards) and pedestrian architecture.     

The scene reminded me a bit of Currier & Ives prints.