Rain and views of the neighborhood

Oh, goody -- another rainy day! Happily, my back/hip didn't tell me about it. Happily, too, I hopped on my bike yesterday afternoon and ran all the errands I needed to have done before the rain hits. Now all I have to do is work into the night for two days in compensation.

On the way back from the PathMark, I paused to take a few "rebuttal" photos of our neighborhood. Someone did a photo essay, purportedly of our neighborhood, which showed all the grittiest bits -- and in other posts on the thread folks remarked about how tree-less and bleak the neighborhood would be likely to look even in the summer. One of my neighbors chimed in and used some of my photos as a rebuttal -- and the thread spilled over into our neighborhood forum.

Anyhow, I was smarting from someone's comment that closeups of a couple windowboxes don't compensate for lack of trees, so I took some pictures of the blocks of my street immediately east of the gritty ones posted on that original thread.

One of the photos is shown here. The threads, if you'd like to see them are here:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=174227

http://www.philadelphiaspeaks.com/forum/southwest-center-city/5934-interesting-thread-our-neighborhood-skyscraper-com.html

Wet III

The rain let up this afternoon. Roy went for a bike ride and returned. It looked like a good idea so I got on my bike and got rained on.

I had the motherwit to come home before I was soaked. I seem to be getting rained on a lot this month.