I saw the gosh-derndest thing yesterday! For the first time since I moved here in September, I saw someone in the back yard of the row of buildings of which mine is a part. He had a tool belt and I realized he was some kind of utility guy. He walked to what the English would call "the top of the garden" where there's a utility box on the wires, and without pausing, he climbed a tree to reach it! The tree-to-utility-guy ratio seemed unfavorable, and I was wondering how he knew he could climb it when I realized he must have done it before. Anyway, here he is.

And here's the same tree twenty-four hours later. And here's the view from my dining room window. That's industrial Brooklyn, y'all.