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^All right, fine. That one swatch of grass can stay.

.  . . Just so long as I'm not the one that has to mow it.

^Actually, I sometimes envy the guys that get to spend their day riding around Forest Park on a mower. 

^Different strokes for different folks. I'll gladly clear brush to maintain a trail, but . . . I truly deeply hate mowing grass. Once I figure out a way to exterminate my lawn and replace it legally with something native that doesn't require cutting I'm all over it.

^Oh yeah, totally. I hate mowing my lawn. I've been gradually enclosing it with low-maintenance plantings around the perimeter (ivy mostly), trying to shrink the active area. When I first started looking for a house, a small yard was one of my goals. As it turns out, I ended up with a rather big yard, but what can you do.   

But still, getting paid to leisurely cruise around Forest Park on a motorized vehicle sometimes looks pretty good to me.  

^To be fair, half of it is bluff and bluster because I've been complaining about lawns to family and friends for so long it's almost become a kind of entertainment. I do actually like Forest Park. And grass has its place. But I sneeze my fool head off fully half the time when I mow the lawn. . . . but I still mow it. And I do like walking around our great parks. Particularly on halfway nice summer nights after they get all quiet and fae.

Posting without checking streetview b/c that's more fun:
Is that small building just a few doors east of the Moolah?

Yep, it's the Odd Fellows. I've always been intrigued by the rather bizarre re-skinning of this old building. There's also some sort of memorial to a Vivian Richey just off the sidewalk along Lindell. I don't think it's actually a grave, but it sure looks like one.  

I'll start off by saying that this is in the city:

IMG_20190319_204118 by Alex Price, on Flickr

^Well, that's the old part of Barnes. Deep in the heart of the campus. (Apparently now the Chromalloy American Kidney Center and the Wohl Clinic.) The top one could be the lobby of Queeny, I suppose. Can't really recall. It's been a bunch of years since I was in there and I was variously distracted by distracting things and anticipating the view up above.

I'll go ahead and give it to SP. The 1st photo was from the pedestrian area over between the fountain and Children's, according to google maps, it's an entrance to the "Clinical Science Research Building". The 2nd photo is the Wohl building. I pass through WUMC several times per week and I hadn't been up to the entrance of the Wolh building until a month ago or so. 

^If that's where I think it is, below the spaceframe in the link, then I've walked right above it on my way between Siteman and Queeny, but never at the first floor level. That building is so utterly buried in the middle of the campus I'm not even sure I've ever seen it from the outside, though it would seem I've gone right through the middle of it. The enormous triangular truss really is quite cool. One of the few really memorable parts of the link, and maybe the only one that can be recognized instantly from both within and without. Anyway . . . cool lobby!

NB: From the map, it looks like the buidling I think of as Siteman is now something else and the new Siteman is the building where Jewish used to be. (Which had some surprising and pretty deco spots that are doubtless missed. Around the west entrance and the stair to the cafeteria in the basement.) It's been a bunch of years since I spent a lot of time in there, and things have changed a lot.

Is it that abandoned church thing in Grand Center

^Nope.

I'd be inclined to guess it might have been the wall of the Cherokee brewery building at one time before Earthbound moved in. They had a bunch of different posters by the same artist on there at different points.

^No, but there is a whole series of paintings in this same style near this place. 

Those are along Page, i think? Around Union. 

^Correct. They actually start around the city limits at Kienlen and stretch at least to Grand. This one is at Walton.

Oh, nice!

Do you know this tree? 

framer wrote: Do you know this tree? 

Is that McPherson East near Boyle? I think that modern house is on that street.