3:00 snapshot #1544: 10th Anniversary date with my Beloved Wife.

My alarm went off, embarrassingly, at the end of my massage. After the massage therapist left I quickly took this snapshot of the room, lit by iPod dock. Then I went and joined Alexis in the hot tub. Proceed only if you are interested in photos of partially nude people celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary.
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Art in the Post Office

I was in a line in the Post Office when my eyes drifted up the wall to this mural. First I noticed the pilgrims dancing in a circle--seemed frivolous for puritans. Then I noticed the hairstyles of the men without head coverings, are those anachronistic? I guess I don't know anything about hairstyles of the colonists, but I assumed everyone just let it grow long and stuffed it in a hat.

More interesting perhaps is the story of the mural itself. Painted in 1936 by W. Lester Stevens, it hearkens back to the New Deal, when the US government took such an interest in putting citizens to work that it literally hired artists to paint murals. It seems so alien to today's world. If you suggested such a thing these days you'd be condemned as a communist.