Today we had our first significant snow of the season, and I suddenly realized how much harder this blog is about to get. I have been holding myself to a rule that each photo has to be taken the day of posting. I know that will have to get interrupted eventually, but it’s been such a long streak of daily updates (since day one!) that I won’t let it go easily. I set out for my walk today and immediately went to the first patch of sidewalk that was clear of snow, photographed a stamp there, and continued on my way.

Only when I got home did I realize that I had already photographed that stamp less than a month ago. So I threw my coat and boots back on and proceeded to walk down the sidewalk, periodically stopping and using the side of my boot to scrub snow from the ends of sidewalk slabs in well-lit spots. Fortunately it did not take too long before I found something recognizable enough, this classic Department of Public Works stamp, on the east side of Regent Street’s 500 block, between Kalamazoo and Elizabeth. I could make it visible enough with my boot, but I could not read the date that way. I was forced to bend down and run my index finger in the depressions to reveal it.

So, crisis averted: I have one more day of rigorously daily updates. How long I can keep that up into winter remains to be seen.