STL DPB ON THE ROAD - BECAUSE IT HURTS TOO MUCH

  

 

We are home again, at least for a few days. I did not get out to photograph any Fourth of July activities yesterday because it's just too damn hot (worse the rest of the week) and you have to arrive hours early or park a long distance away to get to the parades and fireworks. I'm not up to it.

 

And the U.S. had another mass shooting yesterday, this time at an Independence Day parade in a suburb of Chicago. It made me think of this picture, taken a few years ago at a July 4 parade in Harrison, Michigan, that seems to sum it up. We will be in Harrison in eight days, not to see the Imperial Storm Troopers but because it is near where my son and his family live. 

 

Destructive climate and violence around here. You don't have to make a choice.

STL DPB ON THE ROAD - KC BBQ

There are two cities in the United States that seem to share top honors for barbeque meats, Memphis, Tennessee, and Kansas City, Missouri. Other towns, like ours, have locally famous places but those two are considered the top rank. I don't really understand it. Mrs. C and I eat little red meat these days and I have a strong distaste for all smoked foods. To each their own. In Kansas City it is taken so seriously that the cuisine has its own learned society.  

It's Independence Day in this country. Many of us fear for the future of our democracy.            

STL DPB IN THE AIR - ELLIE AT IFLY

 

I have seldom if ever posted a video instead of a photograph in one of my posts but I couldn't pass this up. It is Ellie's final iFLY ride, when they wound up the wind speed and the instructor took her far up into the cylinder. She took right to it and earlier was able to float for a while without assistance. Time of her life.               

STL DPB ON THE ROAD - IFLY KANSAS CITY

I didn't know a lot about this because we don't have one in St. Louis but there is a company called iFly which bills itself as indoor skydiving, https://www.iflyworld.com/. There is a location in the suburbs of Kansas City. You put on a jumpsuit, goggles and helmet, then go into this cylinder with an instructor. A giant fan beneath blows upward at speeds over 130 mph / 210 kph, if I read the display correctly. Before the customers got going on their guided flights, one of the instructors put on a show.

Ellie had a blast. Pix of her to follow.               

CITY DAILY PHOTO JULY THEME - TRANSPARENT

The July theme is a tough one and maybe your admins set the bar a bit high. How do you depict something you can see through? I settled on this. It's not St. Louis but I like it. The location is at the Whitney Museum in New York, in a gallery overlooking the Hudson River at sunset. 

See what other City Daily Photo members can't see at https://citydailyphoto.org/2022/06/23/july-theme-day-transparent/ .               

STL DPB ON THE ROAD - A LITTLE MORE BOSTON ITALIAN

This restaurant is literally next door to the one in Boston's North End seen in yesterday's post. I like a limoncello after dinner at an Italian restaurant. Grappa is a little hard on my throat.

Today is another travel day, ending at a very different scene. And tomorrow is City Daily Photo's July theme day. Let's see some transparent processes!               

STL DPB ON THE ROAD - BOSTON'S NORTH END

I won't be able to get new local material until we are back for the Fourth of July. For now, a shot from Boston's historically Italian neighborhood, the North End. It has one terrific restaurant after another and we try to visit whenever we are in the city.