the peaceable trio

I've never willingly made it through a whole rerun of Three's Company but while flipping past the zany swinging 70s hangover with the remote, I did notice that it looks like a print of Edward Hicks' 1826 The Peaceable Kingdom might be on the wall of Janet, Jack and Chrissie's apartment? Since Hicks was a Quaker he'd have surely been troubled by the whole threesome and smarmy joke set-up, but beyond that they were all trying to live peaceably, I guess.

painting of the month

Vegetable Dinner -- Peter Blume, 1927 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

poetry and parking

The jewel-like words of poets and city parking garages generally don't have much in common, unless you're leaving your car at 201 West Madison in Chicago, also known as the Poetry Garage. Here while you're off on an urban adventure, your vehicle waits on garage levels dedicated specifically to poets like Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson and Carl Sandburg, the man who conjured up visions of Chicago fog and little cat feet. You still have to pay for the parking, of course, but it's a much more aesthetic experience and probably easier to remember that you parked your PT Cruiser up with W.H. Auden -- instead of just somewhere on Level 3.

(Pictured: Calliope, muse of poetry and The Poetry Garage; painting by Cesare Dandini, 1595-1658)