Readjustment ride

I ride with great regularity through that northeastern Saint Paul neighborhood located between Como Park and the Fairgrounds. A couple of years ago the city redid curbs and gutters and repaved streets in that area. As part of that project several rainwater catch basins were created, generally on public lands at street corners which previously appeared to be subject to benign neglect. The catch basins are now beacons of color.

Having just been exposed to this plant in Michigan, I am pretty sure that these are Cardinal flowers.These flowers are blooming in profusion in all of the catch basins I ride past.

It feels different here now. Summer is definitely waning, the lighting conditions for an afterwork ride are much different than they were even before leaving for Michigan. Here is a sure sign of fall.Little kids football practice has begun at the field next to my house.