Just playing around today, surfing the web and what-not; though I need to get off my duff and do some mundane housekeeping chores, for I have some guests coming tomorrow. At any rate, I'm posting a few more photos of Riverside Park (sans airship mooring mast- sorry Miss Y!) from yesterday's walk just to waste a little more time as I continue to avoid dishes and kitty litter.

I fear my mood is reflecting the lack of sun this afternoon, although to be fair, there was a nice 'squirt' of sunshine earlier this morning. I feel fine-- just not "with it" in a general sense-- probably just the house chores threatening to enveloping me . Of course, I am well into my hibernative period, being laid off work as I am during the winter months, and this long period of low activity gets to one sooner or later.

So perhaps in keeping with my dulled spirits, I present the last two photos of my park walk. These two shots show a dismaying sight-- The new staircase leading from the park to the Riverside Arts complex up the hill, is showing an alarming bit of 'concrete spalling' and much of the topmost run of stairway is heavily cracked as well. With the financial straits the city is currently weathering, it doesn't bode well for the maintenance/repair of the stairs. Will they slowly errode away? Will they crumble to an unsafe state-- until some last remaining city worker chains it off? I guess we'll have to see.