Kansas City travelogue

Today I downloaded photos from my brief trip to Kansas City last month and some of them gave me all kinds of creative ideas.

These buildings are in Kansas City’s Plaza, America’s “first suburban shopping district,” founded in 1922. Apparently some of the buildings are facsimiles of famous Spanish and Italian buildings? I don’t know, but they are spectacular and we visited on a day that was so beautiful  and clear, even a lousy photographer (me) could get terrific shots. Not sure what I’m going to do with all these gorgeous tile mosaics and reliefs but all kinds of possibilities are percolating in my fevered brain.

  I took this photo while enjoying brunch at a sidewalk cafe, the Classic Cup Cafe on W 47th Street. You’ve got to try the turkey hot browns! They’re like eggs benedict but with eggs cooked any way you like ‘em, perched atop sliced turkey, tomato and crisp, smoky bacon instead of that weird Canadian bacon stuff (no offense, you lovely Canadians, but it squeaks on my teeth, eh?). Slather the whole thing in hollandaise and plate it up with a side of perfectly browned diced potatoes and a cup of strong coffee. Yum! Turkey hot browns are a little piece of heaven, if you ask me.

Did you know that only Rome has more fountains than Kansas City?