Something I never noticed before....

...these glass bricks with colored lights behind them.
I pass this doorway many times a week and I've even posted a picture of this awning from another angle with the signs showing what's upstairs here. But I never noticed these lights and the lovely magical effect they have even in the daytime.

Obama HQ - Terre Haute

On Wabash in the 400 block.
Yesterday morning. It was cold. Grand opening for all Indiana Obama hq.
Saxophone player, Papapatty (my husband), played on the sidewalk for about an hour.
You can't see from this picture, but inside, the room is packed with people, wall-to-wall.
Excitement, hope. Young people, old people, many ethnicities.

Coming Attractions

At the Verve nightclub.

Work in Progress

Crossroads Sign

Hilton Garden Inn...

...from inside the Corner Grind.
Not so long ago this view used to be of the Terre Haute House- a once-grand hotel abandoned for decades, and the subject of endless debate, speculation, and eye-rolling disgust. As banal as a chain hotel may be, I'm just glad that there is finally something that has some life and energy on this corner, which is the epicenter of downtown.

My friend tifani

This is the back of my friend Tifani's head.
Oh, yeah, and that is Hillary Clinton reaching to shake her hand on her recent visit here.
This took place at an unscheduled stop as Clinton's motorcade traveled from the Terre Haute International (don't laugh, now!) Airport, down Poplar Street to her scheduled stop at the Saratoga downtown.
Tifani is a nurse at a nursing home and residents were lined up waiting to see the motorcade hoping for a wave. I saw this line-up as I was going headed up Poplar on my way to Rose-Hulman for the previously posted Wellness Fair.
To everyone's surprise, Senator Clinton stopped and shook hands and even sang Happy Birthday to one centagenarian.