Thursday, December 27, 2012

December 22

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Running the Saturday errands.

Looking east, out the windows at the quiet end of the Pittsfield branch of the library.



A cloudy windy day.



Looking out the north windows, toward the pond at the east end of the library.



Icy pavement!



Hey, look, a tiny patch of blue sky!



This ok-to-talk area is near the entrance to the library.  I've seen tutoring going on, and people using their laptops.

I like the shiny tables and chairs, contrasted with the bamboo in the planters.

It was the lights, reflected, that caught my eye on the 22nd.



It's the season to hunt for color in the grocery store.




While we were in the grocery, blue sky blew in from the west.  This is looking (through the windshield -- hence that gray stuff in the upper left corner) west.



Heading north on 7th Street, approaching Pioneer high school.  Cloudy in the north, mostly sunny in the south.



Pioneer, with Michigan Stadium right behind it.



A closer crop.  The bricks are all Pioneer high school.  The pool is under Michigan stadium's block M.  The tall building visible behind the stadium, pointed to by the light with a silver pole, is University Towers, where I lived for many years in the 70s.



Walking was doable, if you were careful.  I walked in the grass when the sidewalk was slippery, and went round and round the flat block across the street, rather than taking my usual (hilly) mile loop.

I wish people would be more abstemious in their use of salt.  It's a poison, when used to de-ice sidewalks.  More is not better.

One of my neighbors never, ever, puts any elbow grease into something he can use a noisy machine to handle.  (NEVER uses a snow shovel, for example.)  When I was out with a shovel, on the 20th, scraping snow and ice off the sidewalk, he was out with poison (apparently there's no noisy machine for clearing ice off pavement -- yet).

I can't understand this active trashing of the environment............

Sigh.

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