The Saturday Picture Show, November 18, 2017

As a wise person once said, it doesn't cost a thing to be nice. Paying compliments just feels good!

Just outside Baltimore Harbor is the now-abandoned Fort Carroll, which was built before the Civil War and never really saw use in the defense of Baltimore, but now it's a habitat for all sorts of wildlife, and if you search "Fort Carroll" on YouTube, you can see all sorts of drone footage of a fascinating place. 

Years ago, Baltimore was very fond of formstone, a form of stucco that was used to cover up the fronts of brick rowhouses. Imagine having to look at brick, when you could get fake stones that look about as much like quarry stones as a bowl of Trix looks like a bowl of gems. Now, people are moving back into those areas where this practice used to take place, and finding some pretty cool stuff underneath as they remove the formstone.

This is the fun kind of photo - it's called forced perspective, and you've seen it when your friends send you pictures from Pisa, Italy that make it appear that they are holding up a certain leaning tower.

I don't even know if this is for the real or a clever fake. Either way, it's an interesting illusion.

If you have a metal cabinet somewhere near where you want your keys to hang around, you need this!

Yes, it's a real patch from a real fire department in Turtle, Wisconsin.

Before America settled on Prohibition to rid itself of the alcohol problem, the "dry" forces (those who supported banning alcohol drinks) used advertisements like this to make their point. Don't have a beer, or your child will get rickets.