Adventures along the commute

Today I stayed home until about 10:45 reading student papers through the web site for my class. Being on an unusual schedule paid off. I was going along my usual route, Shepherd Road, which parallels the Mississippi River, when suddenly I see an artist on the sidewalk. He has a canvas about 16-24 inches, and looked just as do the painters along the Seine in Paris. A quick glimpse showed me a lot of green and blue that must come from his imagination. The weather is good today -- there is a lot of blue sky, but we've not yet had enough spring to have anything be green. It is good, however, to see that at least one other person enjoys this route as much as I do.