Chicago is a beautiful city with over 8,100 acres of green spaces, 26 miles of lakefront, almost 50 natural areas and 580 parks. In the Spring Chicago pops with color in the flower beds along the Michigan Avenue also known as the Magnificent Mile. Even the median down Chicago’s Magnificent Mile is lined with flower [...]
It’s a colorful or colourful #FriFotos today depending on where you are. My colorful photos come from a Thanksgiving trip to Wichita Falls, Texas where my parents took us around town to show us some of the 45 fiberglass horses from the 2007 Mane Event, a charity fundraiser. The horses were purchased by sponsors and decorated, then [...]
In Texas where almost everything is BIG I shot this FriFotos Skyline of the “World’s Littlest Skyscraper.” During the oil boom in 1919, J.D. McMahon sold about $200,000 of stock to investors for a multi-story office building across from the St.James Hotel. What investors didn’t realize and McMahon didn’t mention was the blueprints were [...]
Today’s FriFotos theme is flags. I am anxious to see flags from around the world waving proudly. Here are the flags I have to share for this edition of FriFotos Flags: The Royal Standard is flown when the Queen of England is in residence. Flags from around the world in Mexico- and the I [...]
If you’ve seen my avatar on twitter this week, it may come as a surprise to you, I really don’t like Halloween– at least not the scarey kind. I rarely go to Halloween parties. I can never think of a good costume and people who stay in character freak me out- especially if they have [...]
