Two Years and Two Months Later...

 

Damn it.

Sunsets A and B

A: Sunset.
B: Sunset with hulking next-door tower.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Good: A gorgeous fiery sunset.

The Bad: I've had to turn on the stupid word verification thingy that we all hate--too many spam comments (and WTH is up with them? What good does it do the spammer?). It used to be that Blogger would move them right into the spam folder, but recently they seem to be published, so back to weird letter combinations and blurry house numbers it is. Boo!

The Ugly: another rose bush demolished by gophers. It was the bush that produced these beauties.

You can actually see giant gophery teeth marks on the erstwhile root ball in the second photo. ARGH!!!!!!! I will NOT let them defeat me!

Revealed

A hideous sheet of 1970s blue siding was removed during demolition of this building (vacant office space, a real eyesore) in order to build a--wait for it--Walgreen's. Because there just aren't enough big box drugstores around. We really do need one every two blocks or so {sarcasm sarcasm sarcasm}.

Demolition was halted for a couple of weeks to consider its historic worth--and of course, it was deemed "not historic," as more often than not seems to be the case in this city. Sigh. So bye-bye cool architecture, hello big square ugly box. Sighhhhh.

Gr8 Sk8! Save the Skating Rink!

I just came back from a very well-attended (I'd say 1,000 people) rally to save Skateworld, the last remaining skating rink in the county--boo! It's a thriving business, owned by the same guy for the past 35 years...it's being threatened by some ridiculous city council shenanigans (read about it here).
The interior--it used to be the auditorium of a school...




Check out this lady's jacket: "Trocadero Old Timers Roller Skaters"--how cool is that? And she's talking to a former Roller Derby star (the guy in the black jacket)...

Who doesn't remember going to the skating rink? I loved it! Many many fond memories...it's a shame to deprive people of something so fun. I feel bad for kids who won't get to play miniature golf, go bowling, or skate round and round to blaring music...and what do they have to replace these things? Not much...