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< February 2025

February 1, 2025
It was a good day for the home team. Put me in, coach. She tried (unsuccessfully) to find the pizza behind her. It was Norse versus Raiders, just like in the 8th century. She saw this picture and said, `You got skills.`

February 2, 2025
Teenagers born in the early 2000s put on a show inspired by `I Love Lucy` from the 1950s. I sat in front of the judges and heard them critique the shows in real time. I learned a lot about color guard. Watching these shows in small gyms early in the season helps prepare me for the world championships in April. Last year this team was peacocks (see March 9, 2024). This year they`re snakes. The four stripes on her uniform represent violin strings.

February 3, 2025
Is it just my imagination, or is the world falling apart? It`s 60 degrees, so scooters sprout up like weeds. What kind of person writes their sins on a plate and then smashes it, leaving sharp fragments on the ground (see December 20, 2022; January 9, 2023; and January 2, 2024)? I yielded right of way to a waterfowl. Hanging around downtown Dayton.

February 4, 2025
I teach workshops about how to avoid pictures like this. Tonight I got a backstage tour of the Loft Theatre. On the freight elevator with strangers. The Green Room isn`t green. MIND BLOWN! `YO! Camera man! Take our pitcher!`

February 5, 2025
Have you met my friend Stanley? Like a page out of LIFE Magazine, I saw uniformed airline pilots and flight attendants come out of this new hotel across the street and get into a van. Another meeting of the Adam Alonzo Fan Club (see March 1, 2024). Someone had a pizza party and didn`t invite me. The last of the raspberry iced tea. Call Kroger delivery!

February 6, 2025
Art or vandalism? I didn`t do this, but it made me smile (see February 3 above). She just dropped by to say halo. The baseball diamond has more mounds than ever. The `Who`s on first` comedy routine has me in stitches.

February 7, 2025
I went to Paul Laurence Dunbar`s house this morning. Mayor Jeffrey Mims made a special announcement. Sierra Leone is now the official Poet Laureate of the City of Dayton (see some of her work on July 16, 2024). Sierra said, `As the poet laureate, I will amplify Dayton`s strengths, inspire hope and address pressing issues across generations.` I look forward to great things from our Poet Laureate.

February 8, 2025
I spent another Saturday in a gym watching color guard. The gym was unusually small, so the performers flung their flags, rifles and sabers alarmingly close to my face. There`s an art to shooting color guard. I know I`ve done well when mothers contact me and ask for pictures I took of their kids. I took pictures for less than three hours today. During world championships, it`ll be 8 - 12 hours for three days.

February 9, 2025
A little wearying of the years, the tribute of a few hot tears, two folded hands, the failing breath, and peace at last -- and that is death. PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Dunbar died on today`s date in 1906, and his mother outlived him by 28 years. The pond at the cemetery still has a layer of ice on it. The ice can hold a leaf, but it wouldn`t hold me. When you`re a duck, there`s a lot of down time.

February 10, 2025
As I walked around downtown, it didn`t matter where I went. All that mattered was that I stayed in the sun. The sun was so bright, I had to squint. Goose neck. The rest was there too, trust me. Three days later, I realized there`s a hooded merganser in this shot. Pre-spring cleaning.

February 11, 2025
Blazing hot colors on a freezing cold day. In my photo from February 5 above, I could see that there was still work to be done on this entrance. I`m not sure how helicopters work, but it doesn`t matter. Grant-Deneau Tower: renovation almost complete. Centre City Building: renovation not started.

February 12, 2025
Winter has been wintry this year. On a day when I have three meetings in a row, this is the kind of pictures you get. On a night when it`s cloudy and rainy, this is the full moon picture you get. Taken while running across the street in the rain. Time for a new Compleat Shakespeare.

February 13, 2025
When the winds are moaning o`er the meadows chill and gray . . . And the land is dim with winter gloom . . . Then for thee, my darling, love will have its way . . . When the winds are moaning o`er the meadows chill and gray. Love`s Seasons by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

February 14, 2025
Roadside roses for last-minute Romeos. Going to a dance performance, camera in hand, unsure if I`ll be allowed to take pictures. No photos allowed . . . great show, though. Remembering that night with Lauren (see April 2, 2007). I should make it home okay.

February 15, 2025
I`m rarely here during daylight (see December 11, 2024). The Arcade was full of people making and selling art. This was a work of art. I didn`t buy it. The romance of Valentine`s Day still blooms . . . . . . sometimes.

February 16, 2025
Disposable congressman (reminiscent of the disposable president on March 29, 2020). This was unexpected and unwelcome. From my kitchen, I watched an unknown neighbor shovel a path to my car. I may pay it forward, but probably not. I hate winter and despise snow, but made a point not to disturb this. I went to another dance performance where I wasn`t allowed to take photos (see February 14 above).

February 17, 2025
I don`t want to go out. I want to stay in. And get things done. DAVID BOWIE Winter is out to kill me. I`m sensing sarcasm here. Reminds me of a kid from fourth grade. It`s a holiday, so I`m working from my kitchen table.

February 18, 2025

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