Pick up

pick up from Whittier school after after school.

Photo: Michael Wright

Stone Work Leads the Way

Flowers and greenary may be mostly gone, but the beauty of a garden is still visible as this stone work leads the eye through the yard.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

Culture Clash (The American Swedish Institute)

 

Construction workers seem like time travelers in the 1908 mansion that hosts the American Swedish Institute.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Two For One

28th St., near Chicago

By the way, you may legally bike on residential sidewalks but not on business area sidewalks.
(I know 'cause a cop gave me a warning--not the $90 fine--for biking on an Uptown sidewalk.)

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Sunset Over Chicago

The bus transfer station at Chicago & Lake.

Photo: Marz Haney

Window Cat

Might as well continue the cat theme.  This 'good fortune' kitty in a window along 26th St. east of Nicollet.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

Thanksgiving Baking

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Bad Waitress

with some color tweaking.


Photo: Alex Iantaffi

Koko, Squash and Kandinsky

There's nothing like playing with your cat, and enjoying the warmth of inside, along with beautiful, bright-colored squash and a Kandinsky painting when it's gray and snowy outside.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

knobbly and smooth.

Squash!

Photo: Michael Wright  

Frosty Flowers

These flowers seem to be frozen in time, trapped under the ice and snow.

First Snow!

A few random flakes fell earlier this November, but this is the first white ground. I've lent my camera to Marz, who is her visiting family in Oregon, so I ran outside with my laptop, here at Bob's Java Hut, to record it.
I didn't realize the computer would catch me too, out of the corner of its eye.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Abstract Art Wall

Now I am following Francesca's example.  I could see this framed and on my wall.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Accidental Abstract Expressionism

Art is everywhere: this is the in-side of a dumpster (outside a construction zone on Nicollet Ave.).

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

MCAD

In the darker evenings travel becomes more impressionistic.

Photo: Alex Iantaffi

Flamingo on House

Another piece of unique art in Whittier, on the 2nd story of a house; there's more on the front of the house.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

After the Night

Photo: Esther Perry
Photo booth: F. Davis DiPiazza's computer

Setting Sail for Winter

This ship is setting sail for what is sure to be a bitterly cold winter.

By: Nadine

Another Face on the Sidewalk

I didn't realize I was following in Jo Ann's photographic footsteps (see her post yesterday) when I snapped this sidewalk art on 28th Street today. 

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Face in the Sidewalk

I came across this anonymous portrait while walking back to my house from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.  The fallen leaves add another layer, so to speak.  Don't miss the hair at the top of the head, just where the break in the sidewalk to the street occurs.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

Garbage Truck

Through the hallway window.

Photo: Marz Haney

NW corner of Whittier

Around 5pm.

Photo: Michael Wright  

Summit Ale and Leaves In Synch

Golden fall colors are picked up by this image on the truck at 26th and Lyndale.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

Blue Light Special

Have you noticed the building downtown that displays different colors is putting on the prettiest blue light show this fall?
Seen here from Blaisdell Ave. S.

***What's this building's name, anyway?
[Jo Ann says it's the Target Building.]

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Crossing Guards

Crossing guards are out at 4:00 every afternoon to help people cross the street. Thank you crossing guards!

By: Nadine 

Looking at Lucretia

"Lucretia," by Rembrandt, painted in 1666

From the MIA (Mpls. Inst. of Arts) site:
"According to the Roman historian Livy, Lucretia, the wife of a Roman nobleman, was known for her virtue and loyalty. She was raped by Sextus Tarquinius, the son of the ruling tyrant. The next day Lucretia revealed the crime to her husband and father and, in their presence, took her own life..."

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Another Robust Witch

This one really looks mean.  She needs to go to MIA for some stress-relieving art, maybe the Edo Pop exhibit of Japanese prints.

Photo; Jo Ann Musumeci

Hand Writing

Esther, working on her novel for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month: you too can sign up to write 50,000 words in November) at Bob's Java Hut.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

warmly wrapped dog walker

 

 1 week later, the trees are barer, the clothes warmer and the dog walks faster. An overcast day where you had to search for the beauty of life.

Photo: Michael Wright  

El Dia de Los Muertos

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El Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a Mexican holiday to remember the dead. This altar is filled with offerings and items that celebrate the memories of a loved one who has passed away.  With this celebration, Mexicans are showing the community that they are not in denial of Death, but are, in fact, jeering at it, kind of accepting it and challenging it at the same time.  There is a photo of the departed near the top of the altar, and the obligatory skulls (or often decorated skeletons) on 3rd tier down.  This one is a the Midtown Global Market.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci