POTD - City Scapes

St Louis' City Museum is a photographer's dream or nightmare. So many cool textures, structures, artwork, tilework, sculptures and more to photograph. Here are just a small sampling of what I found interesting. I think I have another 2 dozen highly varied photos to sort through yet. If you ever get to St Louis, make sure to visit and bring your camera.

A whole wall of glass bottles adorned the entrance to the Vintage Clothing shop.


Using scrap or salvaged rebar, someone told the welder / artist to "create whatever you want".


Kids climb the metal structure to get to the slide.


Spools of thread that feed the shoelace machine. They design and sell all sorts of flat woven shoe laces, wrist bands, etc on the spot.


Hundreds of these painted ceramic balusters adorn the staircases and covers one of the slides. They spin, too.


In the dark recesses of the back part of the warehouse - staircases that lead you to the 7th floor spiral slide.


Hopefully I'll get to post more pictures over the next several days.

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Broken Window

Because of the extreme cold weather in January, one of our double paned windows cracked. We covered it up with cardboard to prevent more breakage and keep little hands / feet from getting cut. Scott uncovered it today and took it to a local glass shop to have it measured for repair. A perfect opportunity for Two Peas theme of Safety / Risk.



This is my first picture using a texture! It was super simple. I followed one of CoffeeShop Rita's great tutorials.

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18/365 Frosty cold

The thermostat read minus 12 degrees Fahrenheit this morning. That's really cold. The cold temperatures, coupled with our crappy, cheap, drafty windows result in the formation of frost on the inside of the windows.




Did I mention the crappy, cheap windows? Oh, yeah. I did. At least I got some cool pictures.

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