At Rochester Public Market. Rochester, New York.

View On Black

I have many questions!!!

Photographed in Hermann Missouri

Wednesday July 16th, 2025

Day 9.

Tonight we went out for a meal and I volunteered to drive since my husband does like a drink or three and I'm not that bothered. We park on the street if we can in this town and there was a space so I parallel parked and as you can see from the above, a two manoeuver perfect park was the result ...

What annoys me most though is that my husband was actually stunned that I could park the car like that. It's a stereotypical reaction, thinking that women can't possibly drive or park cars as well as men.

Please don't get me started.

I think I'm a good driver. I get road-rage every time I get in the car though, when I witness other people's poor driving or lack of manners on the road. I don't think the sex of the driver has anything to do with how they drive. Some people should never be let behind the steering wheel of a car, and other people just get on with it and have to put up with assumptions.

(This is not a great image for a 365 but having been out I'm running out of time and poor driving is another of my pet peeves..)

Hello Kitty! Desperately trying to get done with these France photos so I can get to the ones I took in October! Happy weekend!

Avenue Kléber - Paris, France

Today over on the blog there's a second set of banger-racing pics bit.ly/YeT51X Meanwhile, I hope everybody has a fantabulous weekend!

.... just admit it, you're impressed.

Komrade P certainly was...

From a zine collaboration between Lew Humiston, Sierra Nelson, David Lasky, Rachael Harper, and Elizabeth Hunter. Made at a zine workshop at ZAPP on November 6, 2010.

still reminiscing of warmer days. though today it's been considerably warmer in Riga and snowing all day. hurrah!

this man spent a little over 5 minutes trying to maneuver his camel into the space by the kerb between a moped and a car.

i can't imagine having to pass a parallel camel parking section of a driving exam. a car was stressful enough...

It was built in 2002 and it's already getting saggy: Look at the upper right!

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In Lansing Charter Township north of Lansing, Michigan, on February 26th, 2021, at Eastwood Towne Center on the west side of Preyde Boulevard, north of Lake Lansing Road.

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I posed my silver 2002 Chrysler Sebring in front of the building.

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In downtown Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, the Melvin Tidyman Building at 223 6th St — built in 1901 (according to this) or 1904 (according to this), with the third floor added in 1905 (both sources agree) — at the southeast corner of 6th Street (Wisconsin highways 20 and 32) and Wisconsin Avenue, a "contributing property" in the Historic Sixth Street Historic District, 88000263 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Nobody around = nobody to bother me. For once!

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In downtown Hartford, Connecticut, on September 23rd, 2021, a view of Kinsley Street toward Market Street, from a pedestrian bridge in Constitution Plaza.

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Calvert Street between Monument Street and Calvert Street, with Centerstage to the left and the Maryland State Highway Administration headquarters to the right.

All yours!

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In Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, a house (built 1898) on the west side of Park Avenue between 7th Street and 8th Street.

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"Gaby & Giselle botas y botines, western wear" reads the sign behind the flowering tree. The sign frame with the colorful streamers is empty.

Whose red Dodge Caravan is that!, from model years 2001-2007.

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In Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, the La Salle Block (built 1912) on the north side of State Street (Wisconsin Highway 38), west of La Salle Street.

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Which panels do you prefer, the beige ones or the light brown ones. Jesus what a huge Silverado.

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In downtown St Joseph, Missouri, on March 31st, 2022, at the former Einbender's clothing store (closed in 1988) at the southeast corner of South 5th Street and Felix Street.

Behind the siding is a building from circa 1880.

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Construction at the CATO Institute closes the sidewalk; no advance sidewalk closure signing was present.

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Personally I associate this style of stone veneer with mausoleums but I guess banks have used it too?

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In downtown Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, on August 19th, 2021, a former Chase bank branch (built 1961) at the southwest corner of North Spring Street (U.S. 151 Business Route) and West Maple Avenue.

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Empty streets and alleys near my apartment building in Táipěi (台北)

Street parking car stuck in Berlins snow piles.

A valet sign blocks a bike lane along 4th Street SW, just beside the Waterfront Metro Station.

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2012 04 15 - Used by the WashCycle.

2011 05 31 - Used by WAMU DCentric.

2010 07 20 - Used on We Love DC

Just the right length for a nifty parking job, seen tonight on the way home from work, Galaxy S3 photo, thus far from perfect...

Sights near 羅斯福路 (Luósīfú Lù, or Roosevelt Road) and 基隆路 (Jīlóng Road)

I HAVE INFERRED from Sanborn fire insurance maps that the building was built sometime between 1892 and 1898. It is shown as an office in 1898, and as an insurance office and "Mill'y B." or "Mill'g B." in 1914.

Do you like that Chevy Tracker from model years 1999-2004?

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In downtown Rochester, Pennsylvania, on July 10th, 2020, a building at the intersection of Brighton Avenue and Connecticut Avenue as viewed from the intersection of Brighton Avenue and West Washington Street.

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Empty streets and alleys near my apartment building in Táipěi (台北)

The building is damaged because four of its ridiculous phony shutters are missing. Do you like the color combination of reddish purple and dark green? Do you like my silver Honda Ridgeline?

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In downtown Leavenworth, Kansas, on April 1st, 2022, Pullman Place Family Restaurant at the northeast corner of South 3rd Street and Cherokee Street.

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Look at the buildings and cars!

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In downtown Racine, Wisconsin, on April 25th, 2021, a view toward the intersection of 6th Street and Wisconsin Avenue in the Historic Sixth Street Historic District (88000263 on the National Register of Historic Places), from the north side of 7th Street (Wisconsin highways 20 and 32), east of College Avenue, at the site of the former Porters of Racine furniture store.

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A valet sign blocks a bike lane along 4th Street SW, just beside the Waterfront Metro Station.

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2012 07 09 - Used by Greater Greater Washington

Bike lanes were laid out seconds before taking this photo, with a guy carrying the paint can actually just behind me. I'd return later that night to find the final markings in place. The new bike lanes run along southbound 10th Street NW (a one-way street) from Rhode Island Avenue (at Shaw Jr High School) to New York Avenue (at City Center). Use caution by Embassy Suites (between K St and NY Ave), where a busy layby effectively spans the entire block.

That Impala belongs to me. I parked it there.

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In Lansing, Michigan, on January 8th, 2022, on the west side of North Foster Avenue, north of East Michigan Avenue.

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I improved the view of the city by positioning my silver 2006 Infiniti QX56 near the center of it.

At foreground are the donuts I did in the intersection the night before, in my silver 2006 Infiniti QX56.

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In downtown Danville, Virginia, on May 31st, 2022, a view from the northwest corner of Lynn Street and Wilson Street, in the Danville Tobacco Warehouse and Residential District (82004552 on the National Register of Historic Places).

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Julia has a parallel parking gift. Seriously.

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Street parking car stuck in Berlins snow piles.