Not a lot this week, but I’ll make up for it.
The maple in the front yard, last weekend:
The same maple, this weekend. How one little tree can drop so many leaves and still be so full is a mystery we’ll have to leave for the mystics to solve:
That’s a lot of banners in the Martin Aquatics Center. And that’s not even all of them. There’s another decade’s worth out of the frame to the right. And the Tigers will soon win some more. If you see the pattern hanging in the rafters you realize it is just about that time. If you watch them swim, you realize it is just about that time:
So earlier this fall a beak fell off of one of the eagle statues at Toomer’s Corner. Since then a wing has fallen off the other. Toomer’s Corner can’t catch a break, right?
About 20 years ago the two eagles were stolen, so when their replacements were installed they were “built to last” said a technician I spoke with this weekend. He was removing them to send to Washington D.C. for repair and restoration. The original beak, recovered after it snapped off, will be re-attached. A new wing will be applied to the other wing. Here he is chipping through the mortar:
And, finally, the other night we noted that the high school football game near home was winding down. So we wandered in to see the final few minutes. The visiting team won, and this guy was as excited as you’ve ever seen for a victory formation. If you don’t see the play button, just press in the middle. Magic will appear:
Do not question the passions that are evoked by eight-man football.
