Halfway

 

24 Nov 2025, 14:00

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." 
— Theodore Roosevelt —

We had another sunny November day here, with temperatures hovering around 0'C - but pavements dry and looking "walkable"... I decided to believe myself able to walk at least down to the river and back the same way. But once I reached the bridge, I decided to prolong the walk by crossing that, and walking back along the path on the other side to the next bridge (behind the buildings in the background); and from there up across the old cemetery back home. Which according to my own caluclations should mean that I  managed a walk of at least 1 km. (Only an interim goal; but still worth celebrating!)

Tomorrow is laundry day again, which is likely to keep me busy enough at home. 

The afternoons are very short this time of year...    

Sunrise Today:	8:12 am
Sunset  Today:	3:36 pm

Perspectives

Again I managed a walk between showers - but today with more threatening clouds hovering. As it might start raining again at any time, I just set out on a random short stroll around the nearby cemetery as usual - but then it occurred to me to try and capture some of different perspectives I get of the tallest building in my neighbourhood (20 storeys high, and so far also the tallest building in the whole town), depending on where I see it from. (I call it the Tower.)

Looking at it from among the trees on the cemetery, situated up on a hill across the river from the the Tower) I only see the top floors sticking up - and sometimes not even those.

From another viewpoint in the cemetery, I see it together with a newer building closer to the city centre, which I think is "only" 18 storeys (but wider).

From down below, and having crossed the river.

 From the other side - now there is that other tall building in the background to the right.

Seen from a park down below by a dam and waterfall in the river.

Back up on the bridge, and turning around, this is the view that those with balconies facing south will be enjoying. (And that view of course must be stretching even further from the top floors.)

(The tall red building at the back in the middle of the photo is one of those newly renovated ones that I showed in yesterday's post. There are lower red brick buildings in front of them.)

The cemetery is situated uphill on the opposite side of the river to the Tower.

I could not recall when it was that "the Tower" was built, but searching my own blog for the word highrise gave me the answer - it was around ten years ago, 2013 - 2014. 

The years fly by...