Sometimes Things look Clearer, make more sense, when they're Presented in Black + White.

 I bought this winter cap from a street vendor in lower Manhattan not long after Barack Obama had been elected President of the United States.

 Loaner bikes available for guests at classy new hotel "Landing," just opened this summer in Wayzata, MN.

 Back-lit shots never easy to capture in color or Black + White.  I'm inside super-hot retail destination, "Foundry Home Goods," in trendy Minneapolis North Loop. 

 These babies grow in my front yard and, right this minute, I cannot think what the flowers are called.  They are big and gorgeous, seem to have been in-bloom all Summer long.

Neighborhood support for striking bakery workers is seen here in the front yard sign, two blocks south of the Franklin Street Bakery.