An Elevated Position (Weekend Street/Reflections)

 

It's been a grey and rainy and foggy week here, and I haven't been out much. Most of the snow was gone already on Tuesday, but there were chilly winds blowing, and I basically just stayed in until Thursday. Which was still grey and foggy; but it wasn't raining, and not much wind; so I managed to fit in a walk into town for a couple of errands. 

In the main square, I found several people standing still and gazing upwards... When I looked up myself, I ended up standing still and staring for a while as well, as two guys were sent up in the air by a rescue services crane truck, to the roof of the courthouse. Once up there, they remained in their "basket" and just seemed to stand and stare for a while too, before being brought back down again. So I still haven't got a clue what it was all about. An inspection of some kind, perhaps - or even just an exercise? ... (I haven't seen any headlines about it in the local newspaper afterwards, so not likely to have been anything very serious.) 

That's one job (among a thousand others) that I would never have been able to do, though - I almost feel dizzy just watching from the ground! (I've never been good with heights...)

Linking to Weekend Street/Reflections#208