A Summer Ritual

During the summer, city workers check all the fire hydrants to make sure that each one is operating and functioning as it should. Thank you for your diligence. I hope that our neighborhood or our house never has to use the facility.

During a Drought--Wasting water?

If it had been a hot summer day, I probably would have done more than just take a photo. The city worker manning the hydrant was posing for my snap of him when a wild-eyed driver sped past through the huge water puddle in the street. Throughly drenched from head to toe to camera, I left without a close-up of the worker.