In white

when the light indicates its safe to cross the street, i always say "ah, its green!" (except when im alone, i guess), even though its always white here. i just cant get that out of my mind, being used to red and green lights.... this was in new york, last monday, while we were just wandering around a bit.

yesterday i was (once again) too lazy to post. we had a nice, but very hot day. some swimming in the morning, grocerie shopping, some biking around (quite aimlesslly but we managed to bike in a circle and ended up where we started, haha). then came the clouds. many, many clouds. and very dark. tim said "ooh, the wind is blowing them away from us, it will be fine..". but when we were in the supermarket, the rain started. not just rain. pouring rain, huge drops. in no time the parking lot became a swimming pool, and the supermarket turned out not to be watertight, trhough many cracks water was coming down. but it was sort of fun, as we were not biking anymore! back home we went for some more swimming, as swimming in the rain is even more fun, i think. and then... we were ordered out of the pool, as the entire community lost power, and you cannot swim with power, apparently.... (?!). ah, it was dinner time anyways... we drove to melrose; everything out of power. a little further to saugus; all out of power. then we drove even further and had a very late dinner.... 

luckily for us the power at our apartment got back on quite quickly. so far that was the first time we lost power, even though this happens so very often during even the lightest storm (but this was albeit short, a pretty heavy one), since most power cables are above ground...