This Way

A stretch of North Broadway above downtown. It's an old commercial area that now has lots of empty buildings. The paint store is long gone. However, the brick building in the second picture, vacant until recently, is now the factory of Bissinger's, St. Louis' chocolatier par excellence.

Up to Chicago this morning. There is a baby shower for granddaughter # 2 at the home of my son and his wife near Logan Square (officially due September 17). Then some actual business on Monday and Tuesday. The Canon is coming along, of course.                                         

Everything's Up To Date In St. Louie

Stretching material here. The reference is actually to a song called Everything's Up To Date In Kansas City, from the 1943 Broadway show Oklahoma!. KC is a darn good town, but why that state to the southwest needs an exclamation mark is beyond me.

Need to get out and shoot. The fall colors are finally interesting here. The up to date business above was found on the North Side near the river.     

Condiment

The wicked root. Madison County, Illinois, across the Mississippi from the north side of St. Louis, claims to be the horseradish capital of the world. Something about the terroir and the large German population in the area. Think about that name, horseradish. Like, um, road apples?

Found on the near north side.