There's Snow Busness Like Snow Business

Here, on the bluff looking out over the Inland Sea (Lake Michigan), The ground was covered with a fresh coat of snow this last Thursday. After consideration of the conditions and with an abundance of caution, social plans were canceled and rescheduled.

It's not that the snow removal wasn't executed with typical midwestern promptness and efficiency. It was, but there's the urban parking problem. How do you clear the streets of snow when what you're really doing is creating drifts that block the parked cars that line the streets. Yes, the road is navigatable if you can get over that drift to get to the road.

One of the fallacies of this dilemma is alternate side parking. The theory is that if everyone parked on one side of the street, the plow would push the snow up over the curb. Then if everyone moved to the cleaned side, the plow could finish the job a day or two later. Viola! Clean streets.

The dream here is that the street parking capacity. under normal circumstances, would permit this to work. The reality is that there isn't enough street parking to handle this. It's the classic example of trying to fit two pounds of excrement into a one-pound bag.

Art Completed Last Week

Ginger Woman

12 x 16 Pastel

Hands

9 x 12 Pastel

Going Back

Recently I wrote about streaming Lawrence of Arabia. I saw the film in a theater when it was released in 1962. There's little argument as to the production values being inferior compared to what we have today. However, the film has value in its message and, with hindsight, how accurate its prediction was.

Yesterday I streamed Dr. Zchivago. It was apparent to me that aside from Julie Christe, I didn't remember much about this film, released in 1965. The representation of the birth of Russian Communism, while not wholly accurate, was very acceptable to many in those days as it represented the boogie man de jour of the political set. Much like the French Revolution, the toppling of the monarchy was overkill, to say the least.

Given I've seen Lawrence of Arabia, here are my options from HBO Max.

What would you choose?

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