My Farewell to Winter

Today was warm. Not windows down, cherry slushy warm, but warm enough to go to the park and not have my contacts freeze to my eyeballs. So I went to Pearson Park and snapped some shots of random things that grabbed my attention. First up are the poor picnic tables. The tables that are usually littered with pigeon poop and Subway wrappers and sticky with juice. The tables that send you home with a souvenir in the form of a splinter in your toddler's palm. Here they are all stacked up and sad looking. I wanted to hug them, but didn't want parents to tug their kids in the opposite direction.



Next up is the phone booth. The phone booth with no phone. I understand that the booth is there as more of an artifact than a functioning communication station, but shouldn't it still have a phone in it? To be fair, it does have an instruction plaque for making an emergency call. So that's a huge help.



Finally, the flag pole. I don't care about the flag pole, really. But the looped rope caught my attention because the texture of the rope again the soft backlighting was pretty. And shiny. Oooooh something shiny!


So after I tore down and got back into to my Subaru, I realized that I would soon be driving right out of winter and into spring. Thank goodness because as much as anyone tries to sugar coat it, winter really sucks.