Thursday, August 24, 2023

Thursday, 8/24

I promised you pictures, and I'm delivering you pictures!

Yesterday I posted one of the (several hundred) shots I took while I was wandering around the west side of Marquette this past Saturday. Without realizing it I've developed this tradition of taking pictures of a different Marquette neighborhood on what might be the last nice day of the year. I don't know how it started—I suppose just a way for me to be outside when it was hot—but looking back I nice I've been doing it for five or six years now. This time I chose the neighborhood around the old Nester school; basically, Bluff & Washington Streets between 7th and Lincoln. It's a part of Marquette that has changed dramatically over the past 20 years, and thought it would be a good place to stroll around this year.

And boy, was I right. So what did I see?

I saw new buildings



And old buildings.



I saw a bike path




And a park wall



I saw, no surprise, a lot of flowers



And something I WAS surprised to see



I saw interesting patterns--



Something you might expect to see in Marquette--



And something you never thought you'd see in Marquette



So if, indeed, this past Saturday was the last nice day of the year, at least I was able to get out and enjoy it. And, apparently, also carry on a long-standing tradition of mine that I didn't even know I had.

(jim@wmqt.com)

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