September leftovers

Seen on a bicycle path
Not in Denmark

Another good thing about being back

I wonder why a curb cut was removed at the train station.

I also wondered why they were removing the time and temperature clock that I love (always try to guess the temperature before seeing it). The good news is that it is back to working order so maybe they were just updating it.

 

Watching Time Pass

This essay in the newspaper about analog versus digital clocks caught my eye.

I use both, but have a strong preference for analog when at the pool.

Like the essay says, I don't need to know that it is eleven seconds, just that it is a bit past ten. I also enjoy the angles of time on an analog clock.

I wish I had a picture of my childhood analog clock that hung above the back door and was always five minutes fast.

This clock hangs in the room where I do jigsaw puzzles.
D.'s family bought it at an artists' fair in town
(maybe 1978?) and is made of metal cans.
(Edited to add comment from my mother-in-law, who originally purchased it)

When I saw this clock made out of one coffee can, a number frozen orange juice cans with a few beer cans thrown in for good measure, I just had to have it for my office and did have it in each of the three offices I had in California. They were: first on Yale in Claremont, then on the Pomona Mall and finally back to Claremont on Harvard. It helped keep me from looking at my watch when I was with a client.

I asked some local people to share their analog clocks.

One person shared some clocks she made.

I don't have an opinion about Roman or Arabic

numerals on the face of a clock. Or no numbers.