How Many More?

Just a bit of graffiti, along the Heritage Bike Trail...  This was one of my shots for this week's world wide minute, but not the one I used for that...

The text is not clipped, thoe three words were all that was there.  Leaving us all to wonder, how many more what?  Of course, ever the music geek, it led me right into Led Zeppelin's "How Many More Times"....

World Wide Minute - 3/15/2017

So there's this thing...  World Wide Minute.  On 3/15/2017, ant 5:47pm local time, you take a photo.  And post it to their facebook group.  I think this is the 4th year, and I've participated in the last 3 (after discovering it at 365project)

Kind of interesting, each photo has been black and white...

Worldwide Minute 2016

Worldwide Minute 2015

I don't think any of these is exactly stunning, but given that I'm usually on my evening communte at 5:47pm, I think that's just how it will be.

Top Hits - March 1967

Continuing the series:

What were the top songs of the month in March 1967 (50 years ago)?  Well, looking at Billboard's Hot 100, ranking by peak position during the month, with ties settled by average position over the 5 weeks of the month....  and presenting the top 40:

Song  -  Artist  -  Peak

• Love Is Here And Now You're Gone  -  The Supremes  -  1
• Ruby Tuesday  -  The Rolling Stones  -  1
• Happy Together  -  The Turtles  -  1
• Penny Lane  -  The Beatles  -  1
• Dedicated ToThe One I Love  -  The Mamas & The Papas  -  2
• Baby I Need Your Lovin'  -  Johnny Rivers  -  3
• Kind Of A Drag  -  The Buckinghams  -  3
• There's A Kind Of Hush  -  Herman's Hermits  -  4
• Georgy Girl  -  The Seekers  -  5
• Sock It To Me-Baby!  -  Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels  -  6
• Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye  -  The Casinos  -  6
• The Beat Goes On  -  Sonny & Cher  -  6
• For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)  -  The Buffalo Springfield  -  7
• Gimme Some Lovin'  -  The Spencer Davis Group  -  7
• My Cup Runneth Over  -  Ed Ames  -  8
• I'm A Believer  -  The Monkees  -  10
• Strawberry Fields Forever  -  The Beatles  -  11
• Mercy, Mercy, Mercy  -  Cannonball Adderley  -  11
• (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet  -  Blues Magoos  -  12
• The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game  -  The Marvelettes  -  13
• I Think We're Alone Now  -  Tommy James And The Shondells  -  13
• It Takes Two  -  Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston  -  14
• The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)  -  Harpers Bizarre  -  14
• Darling Be Home Soon  -  The Lovin' Spoonful  -  15
• The Return Of The Red Baron  -  The Royal Guardsmen  -  15
• Pretty Ballerina  -  The Left Banke  -  15
• California Nights  -  Lesley Gore  -  16
• Go Where You Wanna Go  -  The 5th Dimension  -  16
• I've BeenLonely Too Long  -  The Young Rascals  -  17
• I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)  -  The Electric Prunes  -  17
• Bernadette  -  Four Tops  -  18
• You Got To Me  -  Neil Diamond  -  18
• Epistle To Dippy  -  Donovan  -  19
• This Is My Song  -  Petula Clark  -  19
• I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)  -  Aretha Franklin  -  20
• Let's Fall In Love  -  Peaches & Herb  -  21
• Ups And Downs  -  Paul Revere & The Raiders  -  22
• Niki Hoeky  -  P.J. Proby  -  23
• Jimmy Mack  -  Martha & The Vandellas  -  24
• 98.6  -  Keith  -  25

So, I have 7 of the Top 10, but only 19 of the Top 40....  Looks like I need to go to Amazon!

Tiered

Just a little something, seen at Glen Caron's Greenspace North.

Bag It...

Sometimes I think our era will be remembered for the scourge that is plastic bags...  Remember when it was "paper or plastic"?  Now it seems to be plastic or "bring your own".  And it certainly seems that one can't go far without seeing discarded plastic bags laying around.

I saw this one flapping in the wind in a nearby corn field.  That's far from uncommon here, where suburbia bumps up against farmland.  

As Linus once said:  "I love mankind, it's PEOPLE I can't stand".

Randomness #9674

So...  We're still having washing machine issues (waiting on a part), so we're still making excursions to the laundromat at Monclair Shopping Center.  Which gives me a little time to wander around the area and nab a few photos. 

Last week, I came across this space being renovated... Seems that it used to be a dentist's office. Now on the way to be something else. BIT.... There's a couple of big red signs taped to the doors announcing a "work Stoppage". Apparently they got crosswise with the building inspector or something. Anyway, I thougt it was interesting, with the blue wall and all.

Some other images from these excursionas ar:

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Old Building #9554

Yep, I do like old, decaying buildings...  Abandoned chunks of days gone by...  testaments to the impermanence of man.  blah, blah, blah.

This is a fascinating building in O'Fallon, IL, not far from work.  There's a little bike trail stub headed east from St. Ellen Mine Park, which runs about 1/2 mile and dead-ends at Hartman Road.  This old building is about 50 yds before the road, but the building isn't easily visible to folk driving by...

As seen in Google-maps:

The top shot is actually the west facing wall, which I presume is the back (since it faces away from the nearest road.  Below is more of an overview, showing the "front" and north side:

I spent some time a while back trying to find something out about this building (just some internet searching).  But no luck.  I wish there was some way (shy of trespassing) to see (and photograph) the inside...

Cold and Lonesome

Every once in a while one has to go fully into the world of effects.  This is one of those images....

This one is actually from mid January, not sure why it didn't get posted here at the time.  Here it is at 365project.  But, better late than never.  I was really pleased with t he way this turned out, pretty close to exactly what I was thinking when I pressed the shutter release.  That doesn't seem to happen all that frequently with highly manipulated images (for me at least).

Maybe I should get a print of this one....

Water's Edge

This is an iPhone photo, tweaked on my iPad...   Just a samll slice of life, something noticed in one of the small ponds at St. Ellen Mine Park.

Maybe a little subtle, but I rather like it...