Once again I went for a walk this evening in Albion. It was quite cold (below 20F) but I managed a decent ramble to look at Christmas lights under falling snow.

Unfortunately, that pretty white dusting left me unable to show a stamp taken today for the first time since I started keeping the blog. Any stamps would be hard to find because there was a layer of snow on all the sidewalks. It isn’t like in Lansing, where I was able to just walk along a block brushing snow from the ends of slabs aside with my boot until I found a legible stamp. Stamps appear to be so infrequent in this area that it would not be worth the effort. I am assuming Albion does not have an ordinance about stamping sidewalks as Lansing does. I am still surprised that it isn’t done as a matter of course by most contractors.

It’s the end of a very good streak, but I will keep up my daily updating streak anyway by showing you an interesting couple of curved sidewalks I found on my walk. The first is on the northeast corner of Elizabeth and Erie. I find it interesting that the sidewalk curves here instead of squaring off the corner as it turns onto Erie. I have not seen one like that in Lansing. It would help prevent people killing the grass by cutting the corner, though would nibble a bit into someone’s property.

Further south on Elizabeth, the sidewalk jogs to avoid a tree, which I also find charming. The tree must have been there first.