LIKE IT NEVER EXISTED

Graffiti on another old building a couple of blocks south of the burned-out warehouse seen recently. In Anglo-American jurisprudence, it means that something is of no effect whatever, as if it never existed. Bleak, but the painter says nothing about the reference. The shiny building on the upper right is a very expensive Four Seasons Hotel above a casino and restaurant complex. The economics change quickly.                   

Best Bet

When all else fails, you can take pictures from your office window. As they say in the investment company ads, your results may vary.

The coxcomb atop the pricey Four Seasons Hotel was lit up like a Renoir palette last night. The bright signboard just right of center shows a happy middle aged couple who apparently have not lost all their money at the adjacent casino, or who did but are chillin' on the free drinks they serve at the gaming tables and slot machines.

Below: across the highway at the football-dome-without-a-team. I can't wait. 

We are expecting an ice storm to roll in about mid-day. Could be a good photo subject but I don't have any crampons for my shoes.                  

A Touch of France

I am so low on material that I have to resort to phone cam shots from my office window. This one got some interest on Flickr. It looks north on Broadway and I 70 during a thunderstorm. The domed stadium without a football team is on the left and the Four Seasons Hotel on the right.

The hotel has a strange LED system on that brick fin that sticks out of it. It's usually illuminated at night but this was midday. This was taken on July 7 so why is it, so to speak, flying the French flag a week before le quatorze Juillet? I dunno. Maybe it's a test.

The next two weeks at work are awful. I'll post as often as I can.     

Heartbroken

Or howl at the moon, whatever you'd like to call it. There is a bar here called that. These musicians, probably hired by the local business association, were playing on the sidewalk in Laclede's Landing outside of the defunct Heartbreaker's Rock and Roll Saloon. A number of bars and restaurants in the district have been shuttered because the fine folks renovating the Arch grounds blocked the most convenient access with construction. And no compensation offered.                        

On the other hand, the owners of the Four Seasons Hotel and Lumiere Place Casino did a better job with the French flag last night. No cedar of Lebanon sighted, though.

Let's Go

. . . shoot some new pictures. I am so out of material. The week hasn't been conducive to hitting the streets.

So, another shot from the window of the new office. The right side is the five star Four Seasons Hotel and Lumiere Place Casino. You can go see a show! On the left is the new Stan Musial Bridge across the Mississippi. It will open next month.

I have no idea how they do the light effects on the top and left side of the hotel. During the day it looks like a bland brick cockscomb. (The architecture is, frankly, pretty dull.) Maybe there are LEDs on the brick. They can display anything. This one promotes the local hockey team, the St. Louis Blues.