CotM: Some Things I Can See From Here

The fire hydrants here are tall and red, and usually have a little reflector attached to a metal stick about 3 feet tall on the top. This is so you can find them when they’re covered in snow. I’m used to short, yellow ones that got painted to look like colonial soldiers back around 1976, and later painted by community groups by vote until they stopped that nonsense in the late 80’s and painted them all yellow again so firemen could find them easier. At least the country’s 200th birthday was a fun party – seems like the 250th was kind of a squib.

Microwave data antennas on the side of the hospital (cooking the quadrant pointed away from me, thankfully.)

Weather instruments atop the private school across the street.

Got a photo of the clouds for Gregory, who likes clouds, and caught a ghost dancing on the car.

Friend cat is snoozy.

Aaand, he found a box.

Meanwhile the orphaned peas are blooming in several colors.

The mail lady comes by, but has no letters for me. ):

A century from now, someone will dig up the collected layers of earth from this roof and find a teeny-tiny dinosoar skeleton.

An almost Greenaway-esque collection of dead and dying things on my typing table.

Sir cat has earned a doughnut.

For obsessively licking holes into his neck.

He is resigned to the indignity.

Macro mode with a couple of flashlights.

Updated: September 6, 2026 — 5:17 pm

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