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Tundra by Barnett Newman: i.pinimg.com/736x/89/a4/e2/89a4e23a037e888c2f29c18a84e24fe3--barnett-newman-design-furniture.jpg More tributes: www.ipernity.com/doc/fitzgerald/album/1294982?with=45547580

Old City Hall is a Richardsonian Romanesque building designed by E. J. Lennox. It opened in 1899 and was city hall until 1965. It is now a courthouse.

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Another oldie from the archives. Someday soon, I'm sure, the weather will be good on a day I have the opportunity to go shooting.

One of the most important breakthroughs of the twentieth century, the plastic snow shovel. Lighter than a metal shovel, and the blade doesn't get deformed. Snow shovelling is arduous work; just think of the number of lives that have been saved by the plastic shovel and another twentieth-century invention, the snow-blower. ====== The comments below suggest that many regions don't have ice chippers. A metal shovel would have an advantage there, then. But the ice would still destroy the shovel's blade. Ice chippers have a short heavy blade that doesn't crumple.