Miss the Bus, Catch the Flu

You hesitantly board the bus, fearing the 'infected one'. A person coughs, you flinch; a person sneezes, you want to scream. You take your seat among the potential vectors and ponder your next move. Desperately clinging to your hand sanitizer, the last drop goes dry, you panic. "COVER YOUR DAMN MOUTH" you blurt out uncontrollably as other strap hangers look upon you as if you lost your mind. Next Stop, Bedford Avenue, YOUR STOP! Thank the heavens for I can leave this petri dish.

City Buses just love to be bearer of bad news. A tribute to the germaphobes out there :) Unlike the germs, this shot is definitely best if viewed large.

On E. Prospect Street

A real junkyard dog protested my presence here...Luckily a chain separated me from the surly Rottweiler...


Safety and quality, no doubt; but the environment is quite a lofty claim for the king of Indianapolis Brown fields...I can't even imagine what the remediation and reclamation cost of this place would be. Walk anywhere close and you can smell the benzene and coal tar. There was recently a good post about brown field development on Urban Indy, and may accessed here.


Yes, it says boobies can....


Not your grandma's coke oven...What?

This red stuff was bubbling up out of the ground, running down the street, and into a storm drain (which undoubtedly drains into the nearby Pleasant Run).

More invasive flora...

Urban Nature

Not all urban nature is pleasant; here are a few examples from the Kentucky and McCarty area:

A blooming mosquito metropolis...


Poison ivy and rust...