After Only a Few Days Away

So I spent the holidays with family down in the States, as usual, and today was my first day out walking around and seeing the neighborhood again. I was only gone a little more than a week, but there's a few new things about.

Down at Ireland Park, the high winds and water have left a wreck - bricks torn out, gravel scattered, and sand everywhere.

Bricks torn out at the far southern end
of the quay, by Ireland Park.

The bricks tossed haphazardly a couple meters
away, and its gravel scattered all over.  And,
for extra fun, wet sand everywhere.

I'd usually assume vandals had been at it, but up at the corner of Dan Leckie and Queens Quay, the muck out has been washed and blown up out of the harbour, too and now it's all over the sidewalks.  That'd be a bit much, even for bored kids.  I think Mother Nature is the only vandal who goes this far.

The garbage is strewn like this for a long
way along the sidewalk and bike trail.

But humans have been here - back behind the Community Center, someone's been leaving messages in chalk.

Happy New Year, everyone!