Monsteras look cool and jungle-y. Not so much when bathed in spooky red light from below. This is the Sunday evening scene from my recliner.

This was shot sometime around 2008-2009. I don’t remember how I got permission to go up and explore the clock tower at the courthouse, but it was incredible. Although, crawling through a phalanx of dead pigeon carcasses to get there had me thinking I’d die of some rare dead bird disease. The neatest thing I found was...