Lafayette Park Honey Locusts
The meticulously-sculpted honey locust trees that canopy our neighborhood were planted more than fifty years ago at the direction of prominent American landscape architect Alfred Caldwell. They are...
View ArticleThe Boy Wolf
I'm not sure how I feel about the wolf mask, but I totally digging this outfit he put together. Previous Photo This image is Copyrighted. No unauthorized reuse.
View ArticleFeral Frank
The only thing I don't like about this abandoned Frank Lloyd Wright usonian house is that it's not in Detroit. Of course, if it was in Detroit it wouldn't have any of its original furniture. Or copper...
View ArticleOf course there are peppermint swirl candies. Of course there are.
My kids always get a kick out of Meg White's holiday decorations. The Halloween ones were pretty awesome but Christmas is even better. Of course, it still can't compete with the Snow Duggars....
View ArticleCowboy Vader
We've taken Lord Vader for a half dozen walks around the neighborhood since he pulled this ratty, eBay-purchased helmet out of a box Christmas morning (Santa may have been up till the wee hours trying...
View ArticleBefore the bonfire. . .
Community Christmas tree collection, Verona, Pennsylvania. Previous Photo This image is Copyrighted. No unauthorized reuse.
View ArticleKurt's Collision and Welding, Southside Pittsburgh
My dad's auto body shop is pretty cool, but I doubt that it's kooler than Kurt's. Previous Photo This image is Copyrighted. No unauthorized reuse.
View ArticleDo not Speed $$
I was rushing into Dollar General the other day to get some batteries for my flash when I spotted this in the car parked next to mine. This made me so happy, and I was so glad I had my camera....
View ArticleSled Dog
He seemed rather kingly on the other side of the reins. Previous Photo This image is Copyrighted. No unauthorized reuse.
View ArticleTwo cool characters
I met this gentleman at the Palmer Park Winter Festival last Sunday (how could I not talk to a guy whose dog wears sunglasses and boots?). At first the dog was just sitting there by himself, but the...
View ArticleI made a wrong turn in a small town
This, I believe, is the lovely rear end of a 1970s Lincoln Continental coupe. Previous Photo This image is Copyrighted. No unauthorized reuse.
View ArticleEaster Bunny, East Side Detroit
Last weekend we attended our fourth Easter Egg Hunt at the Georgia Street Community Garden. Forget bunnies and chicks, this year there was a baby goat! Previous Photo This image is Copyrighted. No...
View ArticleBig Box Knight
I recently had to go to a Meijers for a photo project I'm working on and when we went inside I realized I hadn't been there in years. I did all my grocery shopping at Meijer through college and law...
View ArticleRural Decay
During the months I spent taking pictures for the recent post about the Fauxtopias of the Detroit Suburbs, I spent a lot of time driving around those liminal spaces between Detroit's exurban...
View ArticleWendell Needs a Job
I told the poor guy I thought the kids were getting a little too big for him to pull them in the covered dog wagon this year (also, he's six, which means he's even older than me in dog years now and I...
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I had the good fortune to spend the long weekend in a house on the Ohio River in Oldham County just outside of Louisville. This is a picture of a man in a seersucker suit gazing upon an entire aisle...
View ArticleDouble Take
You know traffic is slow on I-75 South when you get passed by a horseless carriage. Previous Photo This image is Copyrighted. No unauthorized reuse.
View ArticleArticle 7
Not that long ago I remember somebody was using this beautiful old castle-like Masonic Lodge for offices; today it sits rotting. Right now, Detroit is teetering on bankruptcy and one of the easiest...
View ArticleNew Neighbors
These guys have been terrorizing---TERRORIZING---the neighborhood for the past few weeks. They've got a fledgling too, and no songbird is safe. The kids were convinced this was the return of...
View ArticleCoffee Truck
Let the hipsters have their fair trade, artisan-roasted pour-over coffees, or their Kyoto-style iced coffees brewed for half an hour in a setup right out of Edison's Menlo Park laboratory. My coffee...
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