fbhjr | Week in photos

My wife has had a cold all week. It has been hard to tell if I’ve been catching it in the middle of allergy season. But, by the end of the week I’m pretty sure I did catch it.

But, allergies or cold, the bees like the flowers.

And, it is nice to have the leaves back on the trees.

It had rained a lot again this week. But, there has been some sun.

It is hard to tell, as I was driving by and didn’t stop, but the dinosaur has switched to a crown of flowers.

Friday was game night. We only did only one game that was a space zombie game.

Saturday was dam day. Twice a year they let folks walk across the top of the dam to the Reservoir. My wife was off doing one of her fairy shows, so I drove up there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachusett_Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachusett_Reservoir

Where I live, we don’t get our water from there. But, it is still cool and close to where I live, even if I don’t drink what is behind it often.

I got there early as last year there was trouble parking even through it was raining. So, I walked over to the dame before it was technically open.

The park on the backside was open, which it normally isn’t. So, I walked the many steps to the bottom. (No one seems quite sure how many. If you go down one side and up the other it is 741. But, I went up and down the same side…)

I’ve not been down to the bottom before.

It’s an interesting view, but it is a lot of stairs.

I worry a bit about what appears to be the dam leaking, but it’s not much…

Probably condensation, right?

It’s a very nice park. Same folks don’t normally get to use it.

I do worry about the dead fish in the water supply.

Didn’t stop folks from fishing there.

It was a nice view of the moon rising.

You can clearly see where the old train bridge used to be.

I heard no alarm. But, I certainly would have gotten out of the valley if I did.

I did climb the more or less 370 stairs back to where I started.

While I waited for the top to open, I stood there and congratulated everyone else who made the climb. I should have made up little certificates.

The moon was very interested in what was going on and kept peaking down.