The  columns in a station create visual compartments between the passengers, who are already seated on opposite ends of the bench. The woman...

Maybe a last shot from the Women's Rally. Michael Parson, mentioned in the yellow signs, is the incompetent governor of Missouri, someon...

This photo is about six months old, taken when shutdowns and quarantines were really beginning to bite. This young man set up shop next to t...

One corner of our baseball stadium has a group of statues of the most famous Cardinals in history. (One of the foremost, Lou Brock, died yes...

And last in this series, Dan Ricketts' spin on Vermeer's Girl With A Pearl Earring . The earring is a bit hard to spot. The fir...

St. Louisan Dan Ricketts has a business called St. Louis Sign and Mural (slogan: a business without a sign is a sign of no business). ...

Like many of my online friends, people who don't wear masks in public make me angry. Our family, even the little ones, are with the...

As everyone has heard, many Americans are tired of following rules that they find chafing, even though they are a powerful brake on the...

A business on Delmar Boulevard in The Loop. I don't feel assured but then I don't know what's going on inside. I think it i...

After all we have been through in recent weeks and months, all we can say is that we will find out when we get there. Whether our polit...

An iconic logo that comes from the baseball team, seen in a rainy plaza downtown. STL is our abbreviation for our town. It's the ai...

This is an unhappy time for many Americans. People are becoming terribly ill and dying from an invisible scourge. Millions are fallin...

There is a meme in old American movies about a stick-up, an armed robbery. The criminal is facing his victim and holding a gun. "Y...

This banner is high on a wall of the enormous Barnes-Jewish Hospital / Washington University Medical Center complex. I've been repa...

Is there a more essential business in St. Louis these days, other than, perhaps the Washington University and St. Louis University Medi...

Possibly the only good that has come of the virus shutdown. I have described St. Louis in these pages as Little-Las Vegas-On-Mississipp...

Before our not-very-strict stay at home order went into effect, I went cruising around town hoarding photographs like some people amass ...

The setting in the second floor of the St. Louis Art Museum. The arched windows overlook the central great hall and you can see the one...