When you hit Road Works on the highways.
In the USA, you know summer season is fast approaching when the road works begin. Road conditions take a heavy pounding from high traffic volume and winter weather conditions. So, come the warmer weather, we begin to see orange and white signs, flashing lights and restricted lanes, as the road crews try to patch up. It seems to be a rather temporary fix, as the whole cycle repeats again the next year.
Pretty irritating, but necessary. Also pretty dangerous for the workers, as heavy traffic whizzes by. A good thing I noticed this year is that many places are trying to get people to pay attention to the safety of road workers. As at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St Louis, where they colored the entrance fountain bright orange. A nice touch, and visitors did stop, notice and comment. As I am here!
I think of how work on the railways starts around Spring, and the person who wrote to the papers, to say no wonder the work never gets finished, because every time he sees railway workers from the train, they’re always sitting on the bank, doing nothing.
Well, of course they are! They have to get off the track when a train’s coming!
I stole this from my friend Richard Morley (http://aviewofmadrid.blogspot.com) :
It’s Madrid in the spring
And the warmer weather
Brings Necklines and hemlines
Closer together.
Oh, ladies of Spain I adore you!!! (To coin a phrase.)
Love your comments Keith! Of course the workers must get off the train tracks—I guess that’s the problem with the road workers: they can’t get off the road, as the traffic is constant.
necklines and hemlines will be coming closer all over! Sometimes what’s worn hardly seems to cover anything!