Cleaning out my camera...September/October 2010 in photographs

Better late than never! Pigtown, in pictures, last September-October 2010. Enjoy!




Man, unknown, getting a questionable-substance-induced nap mid-day.


Gallery 788--art galore--undoubtedly the coolest thing in Pigtown EVER.


...and even cooler Eduardo Rodriguez, manager of Gallery 788.


Todd and Nelson running.




Was really surprised the city came out and removed the hideous graff tags on the corner bar near me in just one call. Not bad, Bmore!




A commemorative graff to Pigtown, of the cool kind, on my back fence. Thanks Todd!


My favorite house on the 11th block of Cleveland.








Green Pig Commons Project Block--great concept; too bad it's not duplicated throughout Pigtown.


Flash flood--crazy. Two minutes before this pic was taken, the water was above the curb. Drain blockage? And like that, it was gone.


When I was thinking about starting a garden/consignment shop last year, I was hoping to take over the lease from the African Braiding salon. How in the world do they stay in business? Braids haven't been popular since the 1990s.


Great architecture going to waste. I'd love to rehab the boarded building into a loft co-op for artists.

Cleaning out my camera...Musings from April 8, 2011

Scenic views from my Pigtown window last April. Of course I'm nosy so I lifted the window and listened in. The perp: "My teeth are missing" and "I swear [cocaine/crack] is not mine!!!" The officer: "Then why did you run?" "See what happens when you run." Wow...you gotta love getting a scene from The Wire right from your own backyard.

My Other Life in Cecil County

Evidently, I'm a woman of extremes. I love the convenience, progressive minds, and pace of city living, but I need to see major green acreage every now and then. So, to escape the urban chaos that comes with summer in Baltimore--I was pressed enough to buy a very humble "weekend" cottage smack dab in the middle of a Tea Party-packed [gulp] campground community in Cecil County, Maryland.

Yes, I'm crazy. Find it here.

Where's the Beef? and June is here!

Yes, the posts are few and far in between. Sowry. I had one heck of a May--try planning your friend's wedding reception at a mega nightclub and see what I mean--but I'm back.

Anyway. Back to Pigtown. We lost our one and only coffee shop, Perfecto. Will we ever have viable mainstreet commerce?



Worse, awesome neighbor and interior design/lifestyle blogger extraordinaire Meg Fairfax MOVED to another neighborhood. Fortunately, she's retaining the "Pigtown" part of her famous blog title (http://pigtown-design.blogspot.com/). All the best, Meg!