therealtamara

One year has passed since…

Plus ça change

Where have I been?

An instrument for measurement, but where is its proprietor?

Crisp-and-hot & Changes

It’s a strange phenomenon this brutal heat early in the summer but met with crisp clear air.

This was the entrance when the Riverfront was a hotel, right on the riverside.

Change is a constant. Constant change is the way the city moves. This corner was Quality Eats. It’s prepping for its change.

It’s a felony

Everything is relative. Language like law has been corrupted and watered down. A felony used to sound like a serious threat and a real deterrent.

Now, it takes 34 of them to help raise some serious campaign loot.

Cloudy but not overcast

Planning

Would the city be prettier if it were all of a style, planned, and coordinated?

We have a jumble, buildings of all types cohabiting in every space. Long, tall, short, pointy-topped, balconied or not.

What facade would we impose over a conformed city? How would such an entity progress?

Would it be more beautiful to behold? Or just frozen in time and materials?

So here I am walking…

I have no pictures for you but a couple of anecdotes from this morning.

Generally, UPS and FedEx employ friendly and polite drivers.

Not this guy.

While aggressively pushing his cart of deliveries behind a man walking along, this FedEx miscreant was shouting “Muévelo” as if the road were his alone.

A man passed me wearing a t shirt emblazoned Brooklyn Seltzer Museum. I am a huge fan of Hal’s. Wonder if that qualifies an exhibit.

Burt has told me of the magical seltzer deliveries his mother orchestrated. His favorite was the strawberry syrup.

We should reference the Barbershop Museum to this sighting. So I will.

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