No Fixed Plans

  Each week Sepia Saturday challenges bloggers with a visual challenge. Last week I visited the Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago where I saw many statues and memorials for war heroes and the Eastland Disaster, when a ship sunk and more people died then died on the Titanic. (The Eastland was tied to the dock when it capsized.) To see more Sepia Saturday posts, click here to get to home base. I took the photos above and below of the monument honoring the men and women who served in the two World Wars. WWI Soldier's grave From the Library of Congress, Civil War Memorial, Bohemian National Cemetery, 1930 WWI Memorial, Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago, 2021

Melbourne, Australia Saturday Sculpture encourages bloggers to share photos of any and all kinds of sculptures. To join, you need to: 1. Share a photo of a sculpture on your blog. 2. Link or ping back here to No Fixed Plans, the newest hub for the challenge. It's a fun challenge. Give it a try.  

  Near Shanghai Hosted by Alive and Trekking, the weekly Which Way Challenge inspires bloggers to share photos of ways including:  Roads:  gravel, asphalt, cobbled, dirt, freeway, expressway, highway, bridges Indoor walkways:  hallways, aisles, people movers Outdoor walks:  sidewalks, paths, trails Stairs, elevators, escalators, or steps Railway tracks, monorails, ski lifts Runways and tarmacs Ferries, canals and locks Parking lots, private driveways Tunnels Signs of any kind:  directional, informational, store signs, wind vanes Maps that are posted as signs

  Weekend Coffee Share is a time for us to take a break out of our lives and enjoy some timely catching up with friends (old and new)! If we were having coffee, we'd be outside enjoying the sunshine and the not too hot day.  I'd tell you that Wednesday I went to the Chicago History Museum to do more research on Marion Drake and her race against the infamous Bathhouse John. I'm spoiled with the online databases. At the museum, I had to use microfilm and go through every page of the old newspapers to find relevant stories. The problem is so many quirky stories or cute cartoons pull me in so it's very time consuming. Tuesday the family gathered for dinner at Tufano's near the University of Illinois, Chicago. It's a neat part of town and this homey Italian place has lots of good food. The occasion was to meet my niece's boyfriend who's visiting. He's a fine young man majoring in Pre-Med. After dinner we went to a nearby Italian ice place as is the custo

 People at Work Chicago, Illinois Each week Cee challenges bloggers to share black and white photos based on a theme. This week we're challenged to share photos of people at work. I’m sharing a variety of work from my partner whom I worked with at the Census, to an artist who carved jack-o-lanterns last Halloween, to a weaver in Indonesia, to a priest. As always, we’re encouraged to be creative. What will you share? To see more wonderful pictures, click here Illinois Lombok, Indonesia Chicago, Illinois

 

 Something that ends in K Memorial to the Eastland tragedy Cee’s inspiring bloggers to post based on a weekly prompt then share the post by linking to her blog or creating a pingback. This week she’s inspiring us to share a photo of something that ends with a K. I'm sharing some brick photos. These photos show the Bohemian National Cemetery's memorial to the Eastland Disaster when 855 lost their lives. It occurred in Chicago in 1915 and more people died when the Eastland capsized than on the Titanic. (Note: The Eastland was on the Chicago River on the wharf's edge not at sea.) To see more K photos, click here . 

  The Windhover By Gerard Manley Hopkins (whose birthday is today) To Christ our Lord I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstacy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.

Yellow Taipei, Taiwan Each week Cee of Cee's Photography challenges bloggers with a fun prompt. This week we're to share photos with lots of yellow.   What will you choose to share? Click here to see more fun photos, click here . Moon cakes, Jinan, China Palace, Phnom Penh

  Here's my post for Monday Murals hosted by Colourful World. You can see lots more murals, by clicking here . 

 

Icy and aloof, hitman Jef Costello enters a night club, surveys the room, smiles at the chic woman playing the piano, proceeds to the back office and shoots a man. We don’t know the reason for the hit and we never do.  The police are called and haul Jef and some others in for questioning and a line up. Some  witnesses’ think Jef is the one and and others insist he isn’t. The piano player knows he did it, but tells the police he didn’t. Why does she do that?  Though Jef has ice water running through his veins, a beautiful redhead agrees to give him an alibi and she sticks to it. The police sense she’s lying but even when they ransack her apartment, she sticks to her story.  Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic Le Samouraï doesn’t feature any samurai’s. In fact, compared with Kurosawa’s or Tokuzo Tanaka’s samurai, you wonder what’s going on? Where’s his posse? Jef Costello is a loner par excellence, a ronin (i.e. a samurai without his feudal lord). Yes, up the chain Jef’s got a boss, bu

 Roorback (n.) -  a defamatory falsehood published for political effect Here's the etymology:  In the midst of the 1844 presidential campaign between James K. Polk and Henry Clay, a letter was published in a newspaper in Ithaca, New York, claiming that a reputable witness (one Baron von Roorback) had, while traveling in Tennessee, come across 43 slaves owned by Polk and branded with his initials. The letter caused an uproar that threatened to derail Polk's campaign until it was discovered that the whole thing was a hoax supposedly perpetrated by the opposing party. Baron von Roorback didn't even exist. The incident proved a political boomerang; Polk won the election and the name "roorback" became a byword for political dirty tricks. Merriam-Webster. (n.d.). Roorback. In  Merriam-Webster.com dictionary . Retrieved July 24, 2021, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/roorback

WWI Veteran Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago Saturday Sculpture encourages bloggers to share photos of any and all kinds of sculptures. To join, you need to: 1. Share a photo of a sculpture on your blog. 2. Link or ping back here to No Fixed Plans, the new hub for the challenge. It's a fun challenge. Give it a try.  

  For this weekly challenge Xingfu Mama will make a post every Friday morning. To play along: Create a post with a photo of places one sits or might sit, or art about sitting, and maybe a little background or story about the spot or a picture of the view. Add a tag “ Pull up a seat ”. Add a link to your post in the Pull up a Seat comment section, either by writing a comment with your URL or by creating a pingback. These seats are at the Cub's section (below) of the Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago. 

 Movie Posters This week Sepia Saturday bloggers are inspired to share photos inspired by this image of Marlene Dietrich . I went to the Library of Congress site to see what they have. Many of their images, even ones that should be public domain weren't available for download. I did find an assortment of photos with movie posters and some posters themselves.  If you want to see more posts, click here .  Lee, R., photographer. (1938)  Children looking at posters in front of movie, Saturday, Steele, Missouri . United States Missouri Steele Steele, 1938. Aug. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017737211/. LBSCB01-093a, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. Forman, H., (ca 1941) Title Singapore, children in front of movie posters and movie theater. Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946) in Italian Mary Pickford in  Coquett

Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago Hosted by Alive and Trekking, the weekly Which Way Challenge inspires bloggers to share photos of ways including:  Roads:  gravel, asphalt, cobbled, dirt, freeway, expressway, highway, bridges Indoor walkways:  hallways, aisles, people movers Outdoor walks:  sidewalks, paths, trails Stairs, elevators, escalators, or steps Railway tracks, monorails, ski lifts Runways and tarmacs Ferries, canals and locks Parking lots, private driveways Tunnels Signs of any kind:  directional, informational, store signs, wind vanes Maps that are posted as signs  

  Weekend Coffee Share is a time for us to take a break out of our lives and enjoy some timely catching up with friends (old and new)! If we were having coffee, I'd tell you I have a tentative job offer with the Small Business Administration as a paralegal working on a temporary basis for their Disaster Assistance unit. I had a 5 minute interview and was sent some forms to fill out online. The operation involves research for the government's stimulus programs (known as PPE). I have to have a background check and  I've become absorbed with the fight for Liberty in Cuba. There's little news this week since the Cuban government has turned off the internet. As far as I know, there aren't any foreign journalists in Cuba. Newspapers and other news outlets don't have much. The best they can do is to interview people who've left Cuba. I discovered a couple that makes YouTube videos about life in Cuba comparing grocery stores and such. Here's a livestream wit