Category: walkabout / local

[rDay Eighteen-Hundred-Sixty-One]

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[rDay Eighteen-Hundred-Sixty]

Over to Tietan Park to walk the dog. Tietan Street, normally flush with traffic:

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Dogs like windows and if they are large enough, they can go for sunroofs.

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Along Tietan, we see that a couple of Airstreams, within the space of two blocks, seem to be providing in-town housing. We also stumble upon a vintage Mercury. And some signs of optimism.

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And a family is out cycling.

The customary, obligatory take on the morning sun from our front driveway:

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Deliberately shooting out of focus sometimes seems right these days …

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My Italian garlic grower friend (and Peter Frampton fan) and I have a telephoto  morning chat, socially-distanced by the width of the street:

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I hear that T***p wants to eliminate the Post Office …

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Downtown banks, like this one, are shuttered and uninviting:

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A Tesla seems to be the only car out and about on this block of sad First Avenue today:

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Quiet and lonely throughout downtown:

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A bee, unable to fly, seems to be approaching death …

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The incessantly barking dog:

Almost no waterfowl out today — an unusual thing.  But we see a scruffy deer in the brush near the creek.  and notice that air traffic from nearby WW Airport seems to be considerably lessened over the past few weeks.

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Our front yard; waiting (for me) to walk:

A neighborhood sentiment:

At and around the “bird park” (Pioneer Park & Aviary):

 

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A sample of what’s out there.