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.
All things must pass, but how long they last depends, to some extent, on how they are cared for. Consider human bodies. The old warehouse on the riverfront that burned over the weekend had become useless and was abandoned. The surrounding area was old and industrial, lacking a reason to rehab it. The right background is our newest bridge across the Mississippi. How long will it stand? Our oldest bridge is 150 years old and still very much in use.
We heard on the news that an old, vacant warehouse near the river had burned, so I had to have a look. It's in a desolate post-industrial area north of the Arch. The interior must have been largely made of wood since you can see the sky through the top. Not much going on when I drove by other than some demolition of unsafe walls but you could still smell the smoke. More for the urban trash heap.
We arrived in Grand Rapids, Michigan, yesterday afternoon following a day of airplanes and airports. After checking into our hotel we found a very pleasant restaurant called River North, https://www.rivernorthgr.com/home, (the river being the Grand River, hence Grand Rapids, although we haven't found the rapids yet). The owner, Rachel Lee, has decorated the place with a delightful collection of bric-a-brac, much of it on Asian themes. This caught my eye. A frog may be able to do that with its legs but I can't.
