Bright Summer Streets

This little guy ran over to bark bark bark. Not a mean bark, more like "hello I see you" bark. LOL

Big tall ornate gates to see:

Locks, rust, chains, gates......I love to photograph them.

The summer sun has set and the bright city lights come to life.
 

Hot sidewalks fill up with people walking, visiting, going on a date, shopping, searching for a good supper, listening to music floating out from the bars. On warm summer evenings, lots of people love to eat at the sidewalk tables. Bicycles zoom past and people walk their dogs.

Beads today---My Mom gave me these brown wood beads a long time ago. I got the green/beige/brown beads a long time ago as well, probably at Wal-Mart! LOL

Today's "arm candy". LOL. Green Marble bracelets and some little blue beads.

Dinner and a Movie:

I LOVE a good chili dog!! and I like all kinds of chili, how bout you?--do you have a favorite?

If you've been to Cincinnati you might've had GoldStar or Skyline chili (both finely ground Mediterranean spiced meat-- and delicious).....LOVE LOVE LOVE their chili parlours!

The meat sauce is served on spaghetti, which is called chili spaghetti.

If you order a "three way" you get spaghetti topped with the cinnamon spicy meat sauce and mounds of the shredded cheese. I always order a "four way" which is spaghetti, sauce, cheese and onions! There are usually oyster crackers sprinkled on top too.

There are no beans in Cincinnati chili. LOL! You CAN ORDER a "five-way" though, which is chili, spaghetti, kidney beans, onions, and cheese.

You can get hot dogs too.

Hot dogs there are called "coneys". A cheese coney is a hot dog on a bun with the Greek-spiced chili and with shredded cheese.

Tonight's movie was "Crossings", a (1986) Danielle Steel authored novel to movie. It had Cheryl Ladd and Lee Horsley, Christoper Plummer, and Jane Seymour. I guess this was a made for t/v mini series. Somehow I had never heard of it although I read all the Danielle Steel novels back during that time period, including "Crossings". It goes back before World War two, Pearl Harbor, lots of history, lots of romance of course!--it's Danielle Steel, LOL. The costumes and jewelry are gorgeous and I loved seeing the historic homes and furnishings as well as the glamorous scenes from the ships.

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It's divided into three sections and it took us three nights to watch it all. I loved it!

Corn Moon and Cicadas!

Loud buzzing at twilight. I always called them "locusts". (crickets? katydids? Grasshoppers?) Now I'm hearing they are actually cicadas. Whatever they are, they sure raise a ruckus at nightfall! LOL They start their loud songs about sundown. I read that they come about every 17 years or so. 

Well, they sure do sound like summer. Summer before closed up houses and air conditioning. Summer nights so hot you tossed and turned and prayed for a cool breeze to sweep in from the screened windows. Nights when you heard the frogs singing, the cicadas buzzing, a far away train rumbling through to unknown destinations, it's whistle a lonely sound.

I call this "the fairy tale window". I've photographed it SO MANY times. It looks like a window Rapunzel or Cinderella would look out of, doesn't it?

Those may be big weeds growing from the old bricks of this church.....but to me, they really look like young TREES!

see the trees growing up there? LOL

Quiet summer streets and a heavy old gate....

Empty porches and piazzas.....guess it's too hot to even sit outside tonight. Plants droop in the blazing sun and sweltering heat of day...but they quickly recover and refresh during the daily summer thundershowers. Lawn chairs and porch swings have been abandoned as people retire to the cool air conditioned rooms in their homes, thankful for a break from the heavy heat of a Lowcountry summer.

Pretty summer wreath

Love this old stained glass! Isn't it pretty?

I love this unusual green door!

Remember when I bought my "mood ring"? At the "hippie chick" store? LOL I decided to wear it tonight. It turned this pretty shade of blue, I THINK that means "happy". ha ha

Arm candy for today--these old leather bracelets

. I have on three, and each one wraps around my arm two times.They are very worn, but leather gets better with age, right?

Someone's little front lawn has pretty shrubbery, statues, and fountains

Time-worn house---hanging on for dear life.......and hoping someone rescues and restores it!

Here I am standing on a corner, (in Winslow, Arizona.) OOOOPs, wrong song, ha ha LOL!---that was the Eagles, right?

old brick posts:

Here's a few pictures I took of this week's "corn moon", which became full and pretty last night.

It was whiter a few nights ago:

......and then became more yellow as it got fuller.

Also known as the "Harvest Moon", it happens once every three years.

Have you been outside to look at the moon this week?

Seen at the grocery store--probably the last we'll see of the maiden on the Land O Lakes butters---see her on a few of the remaining ones? And the new ones have just an empty circle there where she used to be.

........."Elvis has left the building"........

Hope your week is going well so far! Our heat index is 110 this week. If any of y'all have cooler weather, will you please share it with us?