Do you remember the twenty-first night of September
As predicted spent today mostly feeling achy and tired, although I was not that dramatically far below average for me. I did realize I failed to set my post for the 17th, this past Tuesday, to actually post, so you might want to go back and pick that up since it has actual stuff happening, the report of our trip to Cedar Point last weekend. Meanwhile, since the big thing for me today was watching the musical-number episode of Strange New Worlds, let me just turn things over to Michigan International Speedway holiday lighting:
Past the twelfth day of Christmas we get this tree running away from it all. Fun motif that I'm surprised not to see more.
And now another tunnel of lights getting organized. Just wait a moment, you'll see ...
Isn't that gorgeous? The way the smudges of light come together at the tunnel's end almost makes it a very techno-impressionist piece.
Here on the racetrack we see a couple deer helpfully lifting a car's muffler.
A deer and an elf have made off with the tire, good good, that's good.
And now for a tunnel of snowflakes and lights, no less lovely for seeming like something Spock saw on his spacewalk through V'Ger.
Elf and Santa coming to what seems like a happy conclusion here.
And a familiar face! We see this Old Man Winter blowing snowflakes, usually on the train, at Crossroads Village every year.
I think I crossed the streams here between the reindeer having a snowball fight and ... well, you'll see just what in a moment.
Yes, it's the whole state of Michigan, wearing a cap on the thumb! I'm curious who made this and what was involved. Also why the hat goes on Saginaw instead of the topmost part of the state.
Reindeer enjoying a malted together, isn't that cute?
Caught this elf just as the cherry they tossed up hit the top of a very large ice cream cone! Or the elf is very tiny, hard to say. I guess tiny, if the cherry is our scale here.
Trivia: Despite proclaiming the League of Armed Neutrality in 1780, proclaiming Russia and her allies would not intervene in the American Revolution, Empress Catherine II would not diplomatically acknowledge the United States or respond to its emissary (Francis Dana), lest it (among other things) encourage independence movements in Russian lands. Source: The Diplomacy of the American Revolution, Samuel Flagg Bemis. Also, Bemis notes, Catherine the Great was very interested in working with Austria's Joseph II and you don't want to lose the chance to do something like that just because peace breaks out or something.
Currently Reading: Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells, Harold McGee.