A Baltimore Sunday

June 6: 2010: We started at the Baltimore's Farmers' Market, which has become much too popular!

We come for the produce and the plants,

but can't pass up the mini donuts, the kettle corn

and the mushroom fritters:

On our way to Patterson Park for the Polish Festival, we came upon this trumpet vine (l), this ceramic cat:

and St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church:
Modern statuary welcomed us to Patterson Park:













The Polish Festival surrounded the monument to Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski :









Polish dancers were performing:

After some pierogi, we left the festival, heading toward the harbor and wandered into the gentrified neighborhood of Canton:

Canton centers on O'Donnell Square, which features a statue of Irish sea captain John O'Donnell. In 1785, O'Donnell sailed into Baltimore with a cargo of tea, silk and satin from Canton, China and earned enough money to purchase a waterfront plantation which he named "Canton." His son developed the plantation into a neighborhood which become a center of commerce and industry in early 19th century Baltimore.

On the Canton waterfront is Maryland's Korean War Memorial:
































Oh say can you see the flag flying over Ft. McHenry from the Canton waterfront?
The Katyn Memorial of the mass murder of Polish nationals by the Soviet secret police in 1940:
And the iconic Bromo-Seltzer Tower: