Dem Bones

This guy's been sitting in the front window of the Children's Museum on State Street for months now. The top hat's a nice touch, don't you think?

Nottingham

Taking a walk along Langdon Street this noon I took a few snapshots of the student housing along the lake shore.

Most of it was depressingly boring, or looked as though it might once have been grand but had long since gone to seed.

This one appears to have aged rather well despite the apparent neglect of its inhabitants and/or owners.

Pah-Yook!

An example of the depressingly boring.

Their House Is A Museum

This one looks like a house straight out of a Charles Addams cartoon ... I expected to see Gomez and Morticia upending a cauldron of boiling oil from the parapet.

There's so much a guy with a truckload of money could do with a house like this. If only ...

Winner: Purplest

Quite an eye-catching paint job, no? Must've gotten a discount on a bulk purchase.

It was named "Rivendell."

Sign posted at the front of the Emma Goldman Co-Op reads, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."

You should see what's inside!

A late-stage infestation of ceramic cartoon characters.

Almost like flying!

Riding the Ferris wheel at the Sun Prairie Corn Fest with B

It's the hat that makes the man

Yours truly at the Sun Prairie Corn Fest

(see more at Barb's Blog)

High Above the Midway

Barb and I went to the Corn Fest in Sun Prairie last weekend. I talked her into riding the Ferris wheel with me as dusk fell over the Midway.

Stolling along the Midway at the Sun Prairie Corn Fest as dusk settled over the scene

The things some people have to go through to get to work in the morning ...

Soviet Jesus

A frieze on the wall of the Bethel Lutheran Church along Johnson Street.

The flattened perspective of the figures and their rather stern expressions reminded me of Soviet statuary.

A detail shot of two of the Soviet children.

Lunar Window, Dane County Courthouse

I had this image of the building's architect hunched over his drafting table, trying to figure out what to do with this impossibly thin sliver of land. And then it hit him: Cheese! It's a wedge of Swiss cheese!

The New Dane County Courthouse

It's a flatiron building all over, but this end, on the corner of Hamilton and Wilson Streets, is the tallest of all the corners.

B and I went to a consignment auction last weekend.

We certainly didn't need more stuff in our house. It was more an opportunity to get out, have a look around and relax all day doing virtually nothing.

Even so, I did come back with a nice mantle clock, and B found a chair she liked.

We might have brought home one or two other bits and trinkets, too.

It's a disease.

Odds and ends abounded. I've never seen so much blue enamel and so many kerosene lanterns in one place.

There's something for everyone to collect.

Not only did they sell this ... somebody bought it!