My Home Away from Home

Anyone familiar with South Saint Louis is well-aware that this part of town has that special charm that one only finds when cousins marry cousins. Oh! But the story doesn't end there -- one cousin ate lead paint while growing up next door to the power plant, and the other cousin's mama underwent shock treatments in the 60s and only has spells now and then. There's something so....I dunno....Deliverance meets Good Times about the while South Side Way of Life.....it's just hard to express.

Hoping to find a visual representation of my South Side Life, I took my camera out biking and captured these images....

Joyce's Mardi Gras Party

My Kinda Store

Someone's Yard it also had concrete benches, so it could be a public park

The Nuke-ular Glow of Sunset