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Nov. 1st, 2020 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatThe day is gloomy, with rain pattering in the distance. Birds tweeting here and there, and the leaves slowly drifting from green to red.
Wandered around the cemetery on Friday and Saturday evenings - the last time I could in the early evenings from roughly 4pm to 6pm. Starting today, it will close at 5pm each night. Since it's usually dark at 5 anyhow, now, this is not an issue. It's a bit controversial - thirty states want to make Daylight Savings Time Permanent and not to Fall Back, another group of States, have never practiced Daylight Savings Time, and still another want to stick with what we currently have.
Friday was quieter, although I got rained on. It was beautiful and sunny, one moment and rainy the next. Cold. In the forties. Yesterday, it was just plain beautiful - with a crystal blue sky and hardly any clouds. I paused for a bit, next to a tree overlooking one of the turtle ponds.
Halloween costumes aplenty. And various people socializing in various areas. I saw a group of young women sipping wine and chatting on a blanket amid the grave stones.
I circumvented most of the activities, since social distancing wasn't readily apparent. But I did wave to my neighbors. And in a way it was a relief to see the masked trick-or-treators, the candy being handed out on the sidewalks, and Halloween decorations. On one block they had a large skeleton on stilts they were carrying about, with music playing.
The New York Times, apparently, felt guilty about all those articles attempting to scare the hell out of me - so posted Election Distractor. It's basically a collage of calming videos and informational shorts about space, the undersea world, etc. Lots of videos. Kind of cool actually - the New York Times is finding new and innovative ways of justifying my continued subscription.
I've decided to ignore the news for the next four days. I'm taking a break from things for a bit. The internet, the election, all of it. Just for a little bit.
So here's a bunch of photos I took during my walk yesterday...instead.
Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion walking Toto.
Wandered around the cemetery on Friday and Saturday evenings - the last time I could in the early evenings from roughly 4pm to 6pm. Starting today, it will close at 5pm each night. Since it's usually dark at 5 anyhow, now, this is not an issue. It's a bit controversial - thirty states want to make Daylight Savings Time Permanent and not to Fall Back, another group of States, have never practiced Daylight Savings Time, and still another want to stick with what we currently have.
Friday was quieter, although I got rained on. It was beautiful and sunny, one moment and rainy the next. Cold. In the forties. Yesterday, it was just plain beautiful - with a crystal blue sky and hardly any clouds. I paused for a bit, next to a tree overlooking one of the turtle ponds.
Halloween costumes aplenty. And various people socializing in various areas. I saw a group of young women sipping wine and chatting on a blanket amid the grave stones.
I circumvented most of the activities, since social distancing wasn't readily apparent. But I did wave to my neighbors. And in a way it was a relief to see the masked trick-or-treators, the candy being handed out on the sidewalks, and Halloween decorations. On one block they had a large skeleton on stilts they were carrying about, with music playing.
The New York Times, apparently, felt guilty about all those articles attempting to scare the hell out of me - so posted Election Distractor. It's basically a collage of calming videos and informational shorts about space, the undersea world, etc. Lots of videos. Kind of cool actually - the New York Times is finding new and innovative ways of justifying my continued subscription.
I've decided to ignore the news for the next four days. I'm taking a break from things for a bit. The internet, the election, all of it. Just for a little bit.
So here's a bunch of photos I took during my walk yesterday...instead.
Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion walking Toto.
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Date: 2020-11-01 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-01 07:42 pm (UTC)Other than posts around these parts and Pillowfort, I've been doing the same for the past 2 weeks. I am just full up with the election, Trump and Covid news which is 90% of the news at this point. I figure there will be no missing the results, whenever they become confirmed so I'm expecting to tune out the rest of this week as well.
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Date: 2020-11-01 08:46 pm (UTC)