This might be one of those spite houses, built with the main purpose of obstructing someone's view. I don't know, but I do know, the bedroom is small enough that you'll have to step out into the hall to change your mind.
In Brazil, a brilliant Brazilian artist has transformed this ugly bridge abutment into a work of elegance and style. Bite my shorts, man!
William T. Mullen, of Clayton, Alabama, loved his whiskey, oh yeah. He came back from brief service in the War Of Southern Disrespect after just two months in the Confederate Army because he preferred his booze over everything else in life, including his wife Mary, the daughter of the county jailor. She always said that the hooch was going to put him in an early grave. He got there in 1863, and she had a special bottle-shaped headstone made for him.
What on earth is prettier on a cold snowy morning than a nice warm sunrise?
This frozen arctic fox was found in Siberia, and he is 18,350 years old. We know for sure that while he roamed the tundra, he maintained a conscientious program of oral hygiene: all teeth intact!
This is "Comfort Town," a suburb of Kiev, Ukraine, where the locals have painted buildings and houses and apartments and offices in bright happy colors to stand apart from the surrounding grey Soviet style buildings that surround them.
Continuing our series of really cool places and nooks where one can sit and read in peace...look how comfortable that leather chair looks!
So, the lesson is, get a yellow car. It will be easier to find.
You might think that this shows a young budding physician, trying out the tools of the trade as a child, and then reaching her goal. But what it really is, is a picture of a man seeing the young doctor, and how long it took him to get a follow-up appointment.
You don't have these in Miami or Cairo or Mexico City, but in Baltimore we have some hilly streets that get slick with ice in winter, and a little saltbox full of salt adds traction and a chance to salute some local heroes.
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