WRAPPING UP A WHIRLWIND TRIP TO INDY

Wandering the old Union Station, Indianapolis

IT MUST SEEM THAT WE SPENT WEEKS IN INDIANAPOLIS, BUT IT WAS ONLY TWO ACTION-PACKED DAYS. On Sunday, we woke at our Union Station hotel and took a short, sunny walk down to Café Patachou for brunch. On the way we passed the Indiana Theater, an ornately detailed building with a grand facade of white terra cotta brick. Look near the top on the right side of the face of the building, and you’ll see a sundial. It read 8:30 when we passed, only a small rectangle full in the sun. How lucky for us to walk by just then, because the skyline blocks the sun, and it now gets just a postage-stamp of light for part of the day. On our walk back an hour later, it was deep in shadow, and the time was obscured.

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Sun-time!

Cauliflower "Rice"

Fox and the Grapes at Newfields

Lemon Tree, Very Pretty...

Letter TO Birdland: HAPPY TRAILS IN INDY

Pedestrian Bridge Crosses White River

IN MY LAST LETTER I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT OUR TRIP TO INDIANAPOLIS. I think I left you on the Canal Walk, an urban trail in Downtown Indy that runs past artwork, museums, and other attractions—statues of mastodons; a steampunk clock that contains a spinning earth above the brass works in its pendulum case, steam escaping from valves in the top; a community garden (the kale still growing!) and the Watanabe Garden that rises uphill, a meandering path curving through the shade and prairie plants. 

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Limestone Wall along River Walk

Steampunk!