Chronicles Continued

This is the bigger picture.  Under the tree to the left,  two little black dots

And this is the definitive.  The handles and seat to the bicycle chained to the fencing around the base of the tree.  Waiting for the owner to come and dig this out.

Across the street from where the car was parked, was this unassuming building, that declared itself as a clothes cleaner.  I saw the sign in the window. and walked over to see it more clearly.  What a wonderful human endeavor.  Have NEVER seen this in the City.  Am going to approach my favorite cleaner and see if they and i can work out a deal.  They do the work, I’ll subsidize.  Maybe I can convince other friends to do the same. 

The snowing has come to an end.  The storm is apparently over.  Because it was a Saturday, the City coped well and the folk enjoyed the holiday from the usual and the freedom to walk in the middle of the non-existent traffic.

of the number of selfies being taken by couples in the middle of the street.  As all traffic except emergency vehicles have been banned from travel, the roads are silent and empty.  There are cabin fevered walkers who stop in their tracks and pose.  Few are walking on the sidewalks, as the streets are cleared hourly.  Also a number of young children have been exhorted to go outside as i see them climbing in and out of the drifts made by the garbage trucks turned snow plows.

..so I can stay inside.  These are descriptive!  Flooding amazes me and I always wanted to live by the water.  As I watch the accumulation, I think what if this were rain!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3413454/Now-come-FLOODS-New-Jersey-warned-rising-tides-make-Jonas-worse-state-emergency-declared-New-York.html

Awoke to a winter landscape at 6 am because it was so silent outside.  No traffic, no voices.  The storm had arrived.  Then I noticed this:

The bird remained on the limb while the wind swirled the snow around it.  One hour it sat there.  It looks like a dove; I wonder where it came from and eventually where it went.l

Another moment when I wonder if it is all hype or is the weather report right on.  The City appears to be sanely going about it’s business.  Haven’t noticed any empty shelves in the local grocery or drug store and no one loaded down with shopping bags of supplies.  Perhaps where I ought to be checking is the Wine and Liquor store.  It might be there that the long lines, empty shelves and ladened bags are to be found.

Found myself doing the wash.  As I was laying out the sheets to dry, it caught my attention that here I was, once again, doing the laundry before the storm.  The underlying motivation is that clean sheets on a cold night are better if the electricity goes out.

What happens when you let a City person out…

 

Look like tiny wind-up toys.  The ones found in the trash in the basement from time to time, are double this size.  These apparently live in the ivy at the base of the tree by the curb, about 20 feet away from where they are here.