Spirit of St. Louis

If you haven't been to St. Louis

and someday you do, you'll find it enchanting as a good ghost story, beautifully sturdy, petite as Napoleon's children. Filled with good stories over full glasses in a flower laden beer garden. Flagrantly and delightfully herbaceous. Sensuously disheveled, as if, head in hand, recalling mornings following evenings worth remembering.

When I return to Florida beaches

I'll remember the whole blocks

of beautiful sycamores

mauve pigeons underneath

Shade lined blocks of home after home

made with care and craft,

an eye for beauty,

fragrant with mimosa trees 

and a whiff of roasting hops.

Click link for short video: St.Louis from the west end of Forest Park

This is not even a fraction, nor an example, of the stately or most beautiful architecture St.Louis is filled with. It is simply spots along my routes this week. 

~ Dorothy Dolores 

PS you won't regret giving this a listen:

  a favorite version of St. Louis Blues