Tuesdays Around Town

I live in a planned community. (Yes, I've heard all the Truman Show jokes, and all the Stepford Wives jokes.) I fully agree that the name of the community is rather stupid; we could have had a cool town name like "Prairie Bend" or "Riverview". (We will try to forget that the River came way too close to "view" comfortably last year.) But in exchange for all the jokes, I have a neighborhood I'm not afraid to walk in alone at night, and a community of people who mostly meet your eyes and nod hello as you pass.

In honor of my Town, I'm instituting Tuesdays Around Town. (Truth in advertising notice: I took these pictures yesterday, when we actually had sunlight. We expected rain today, and we got it in buckets, so I'm glad I fudged the rules a bit here. Plus, I had knit night at the local coffee shop tonight, and I wouldn't have had time to get pictures anyway.)

First, the view along the lake walk. It looked like a neat perspective shot with the afternoon sun hitting the columns.



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I had one more picture of blazing red maple trees lined up the street against a perfect azure-blue sky, but while trying to crop out the car parked in the frame, I somehow killed the JPEG and couldn't recover it. And of course I'd already erased it off the camera. (Idiot.) So imagine fire-red leaves against a butter-yellow house and cloudless blue sky.