a long hole near my apartment

I think it was at the end of the winter, and maybe a few more days before the beginning of eagerly-wait-for-spring, several years ago, I found in the morning that several blue excavators painted "KOBELCO" on its big shovels were suddenly digging the ground on the avenue just in front of my apartment. At the time I remembered that I got a notice from STIB (Brussels public transportation company) on the very previous night, and it said that the current rails of the tram 92 around my apartment area should be replaced for new ones. When roughly reading it without paying much attention, I thought the construction would start several weeks or a month later. Then, in the very next morning, looking at the excavators digging a hole, firstly I just made a slight smile unconsciously without saying anything, then, rushed to the workers and shouted that I needed to get my car out of my garage before they made big holes in front of my apartment.

Later, I called the commune/town office to ask whether they could offer a temporary free-parking lot for residents including me who were forced to make cars out of garages until the end of the construction, maybe for several months. The officer firstly asked me my address, and seemed to check a map around my area over the phone, then said that I was so lucky that I can park my car anywhere around my apartment without any permission, because streets and avenues around here were parking-free (besides construction area), really lucky, anyway, in any means.

At that night, first night of the construction, I left my office at the late hour, maybe around 22:00, then came back to my apartment around 23:00. Unlike normal operation, the tram 92 was forced to stop at the temporary final stop, which was well far from my apartment, so, I had to walk for a while from there. Near my apartment, I found excavators did a really good job on its day one, making a really deep, long hole along with the avenue. Then, around two blocks from my apartment, I saw a white sedan car literally fell into this hole. The car seemed to go to the garage as usual, just without knowing that there was a hole in front of the house, unlike the day before. 

Around 24:30, rescue crews (the resident called) came to pull the car from the hole. I saw it through the window before going to bed.

Here was Brussels, at midnight.

at chesapeak bay

The sky is so high and blue, and the color of the beach is light-brown. The beach at Chesapeake bay is a little bit crowded, but I totally have no difficulty to find my space to stab my beach parasol into the sand deeply. lying back in a folding chair, I see the young father trying to fly a kite in front of his young son, still a toddler,  and the mother just lies down on the towel for a sunburn.

I cannot listen to the sound of waves from Chesapeake, simply because the sound of winds keeps coming around me, but the winds are not so strong, rather makes me feel a little bit nicely cool under the parasol, while the sun blazing down on us in the afternoon. People are everywhere, say, in the water, they are enjoying swimming just inside the rope connected by several red buoys, which keeps people away from the deep offshore. 


Several people also make a line in front of the water-tap, especially for washing sands off from their feet. At the very front of the line, there is a young mother washing his son, just 3 or 4 years old. The mother washes not only the boy's feet, but also his entire body by using a small cup. Obviously the small cup is not enough large for showering the boy quickly, so naturally, the line becomes somehow a little bit long. 


Here is the beach in front of Chesapeake bay, Maryland.