Indianapolis

Miscellaneous Indianapolis photos.

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Some shots from the museum (though the museum contained many fine works of Art, there were way too many "abstract" works; too many plain black or plain beige squares, many with their own huge room.  I don't understand that stuff.  It seems like an easy way in to a museum.  You'll always get the intellectual type who stand there and stare at what is literally a white linen napkin hanging on the wall.  You'll hear them talk about the depth, the conception, the inner workings.  It's a white linen napkin hanging on the wall!!!  There's nothing to "get".  It's silk, about 8 inches square, and probably from Walmart.  One room was about half the square footage of my house and contained a single grey rectangle).  Most of what I really thought was beautiful came from the greenhouse.

Before we took photos at this famous piece, a guy proposed to a girl right here. 

Some plants in the greenhouse

Indiana Medical History Museum

Following the completion of my final exams, Aimee and I took one last road trip of the year to sort of "recuperate". We headed to Indianapolis, since we had never spent time there before.  It's really a beautiful city.  As always, there are so many places I wanted to see and photograph, but time was not on out side.  Besides, we hit up the antique malls and completed a couple rounds of late-night bowling (she beat me as always).  Here are a few photographic highlights from our trip.

These were taken at the Indiana Medical History Museum 

A very early stereoscope

An early manual centrifuge

Gross lesions - are there any other kind?

Early microscope

Curl up with one one these

Original 1895 medical classroom

Autopsy table

The old power plant that provided electricity to a long-gone medical campus

Delay

No posts in awhile yet again - this past semester has been heavy, but that's over and done with and I have a bit more time to take photos (until I go back early next month).  I have some photos from the last month but not much worth posting.  On Thanksgiving, my nephew Jeffrey (the Peffernaut) and I took a post-feast walk along north Milwaukee Ave.  I think he caught the photography bug.  We walked to the historic yet overlooked Edison service station at 5837 N. Nagle, and then headed east on Ardmore toward Milwaukee Ave, where we shot a few old signs and a fenced in empty lot, where someone had been living in a disheveled old tent.