My Early Morning Bus Ride

Today I decided to take along my son's inexpensive camera he received a couple years ago from Geeks.com. I think it only cost $39 two years ago or so, and it actually takes some pretty good photos. If you look at the lovely bus stop marker here you can see Landmark Place in the background. It is too bad you cannot even tell what buses stop here at this stop unless you already know since first the "Stop Eliminated" and then the "Temporarily Restored" signs render the bus stop sign pretty useless. If you blow up the picture you will see "59" on the lower left signifying Metrobus route #59 stopping here, but it does not mention the ever popular Metrobus #2 (Red Line) which does indeed pass there every hour.

My first shots here are from the corner of Brentwood and Rose at about 7:45am. Nobody else was there so I must have looked weird listening to my MP3 player (a Creative Zen V) and playing with the old digital camera at the side of the road. From here you can see the still defunct Circuit City at Brentwood Square which is still sitting vacant. It would be nice to see a new electronics or appliance retailer move into that large space, but with a Best Buy just down the street on Eager, it may not be the most desirable spot. There sure are a lot of people on Brentwood who are sitting in their cars on their cell phones at 8 in the morning. You'd think having just left home they would not already need to be talking on the phone! I would take pictures of some of them, but that may seem a bit creepy!

Having made it to Wash U on the bus I am also including a picture of the meeting of Whittaker Hall and the soon to be completed Brauer Hall in the Engineering School. Why do I include this shot? Well, look at the lovely pink granite on these two expensive buildings. It does not match!! I would think after spending millions on designing these showcase buildings they would actually try to make the stonework match. It is not like Whittaker is very old of a building.