Wake Up
I've posted about 40 new window display photos, some recent and some randomly from the backlog of what I shot ages ago but didn't process and post. You can see them at my Flickr.
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After the weird winter we've had, maybe I should've expected my allergies and resulting Spring Thing to start flaring sooner and harder than usual. It's funny how most of the year I forget how awful and scarily weak the Spring Thing makes me feel. It's like my body is heavy, leaden, and wobbly. It's going out to do things and not knowing if I'll have the energy to walk myself home; if I take my car, sometimes I have to sit for a while in it before I can summon the strength and drive to get out of it to wherever I'm going. The allergy symptoms sometimes make me think I have anxiety from how they affect my breathing and give me a bad, tight feeling in my chest.
It's so unusual to get a winter where we had almost zero snow accumulation. Usually, we get a foot or so once or twice, but this season the most we got was five inches that didn't stick around on the streets and sidewalks for long.
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I returned to Flushing Meadows Corona Park for a first time in a while this weekend, but it was too cold and damp to stay there for a long. The Skystreak towers don't look like much has been done on their repair work recently, and the sign for the renovation they put up on the gates closing them off in 2020 is badly graffitied and lists the project's completion date as Spring 2022. Ooops. (Yeah, sure, the pandemic, but this isn't the kind of work that'd be impossible to do during it. It might've even helped if they'd let it.) I guess I shouldn't be surprised given the years of broken promises. I saw some photos online of the new lights being tested on the New York State Pavilion|"Tent of Tomorrow," so some work has been done on some of the site, but they don't seem to be using those lights often thus far.