Nothing Changes But the Changes
I went for a walk downtown on Sunday evening. I wanted to take some pictures of the hospital to show you the progress that's been made in the construction of the addition. It seems like it is taking a long time for them to finish. They still have quite a ways to go.
I read in the local newspaper that they are making different sections of the hospital different colors. Supposedly, this is to make it easier for visitors to locate the area they need. It seems to me that just giving the wings each a name and using the room and floor numbers would have been sufficient. It seems to work in other buildings I've been in.
I had been under the impression that they were going to make the new addition match the original building. Obviously, I was very wrong about that as you will see in the pictures I took.
This black part is the back of the hospital. It isn't finished yet, as you can see. I don't know what color it is going to be when they get it finished.
The brown brick part is the original building.
They do have windows installed in this part now, but the outside wall isn't finished.
Here is some more of the original building on the south side.
This is where it starts getting strange to me. Next to the original building on this side it is orange.
And as you can see as you move on around to the east side of the building, it is green. What?! Green? Really? Orange and green and brown? Don't forget there is also that black section we already walked past. What color is that going to be? Whose idea was this to color code the sections of the building? Why were these particular colors chosen? Couldn't they have come up with some kind of color scheme that was a little more aesthetically pleasing? Am I the only one that thinks this is all wrong? Am I the only one who thinks these colors clash and that artistically this addition is out of place in style and design with the original building?
Here at the east end, it is all green and very update and modern looking. I think that it looks very nice, but that it doesn't coordinate with the original building at all.
As we come back around to the front of the building, we can see where the new green part joins to the original brown brick part on the north side.
As I walked away from the hospital and back towards home, I saw these black eyed susans and some sort of purple flower planted around this utility box. I guess they planted the flowers there to kind of disguise or make prettier the ugly green box. Well, that works on the other side, but not so much on this side.
I took a couple of close up shots of the flowers.
I thought I'd show you how busy the street is here that goes by the hospital. It is one of the two main roads that come into town and intersect at the courthouse square downtown. As you can see there isn't a car in sight. Sunday evening in a small town doesn't bring a lot of traffic.
I walked back through the neighborhood on some smaller side streets. I went past this back yard that has been newly landscaped. It is very pretty and looks like it must have been expensive to have this all done. I am left to wonder, though, if it will really get used very much the way it is intended or if it will end up just being decorative. It seems to me that it would be easier to just mow the back yard if it were all grass than to keep this area maintained and weed free.
There are two separate sitting areas. This first one has benches.
The second has chairs around something circular, which I am assuming is a fire pit or grill of some sort, but I'm not sure.
A couple more blocks closer to home, I walked past this ornamental grass that was growing in someone's yard. It is pretty, I think, although it seems a little out of place here for some reason. It seems like it ought to be growing by the sand on the beach of the ocean to me.
I'm almost home now. I come upon all these tree branches out by the side of the road. They have been put there for the city crews to come by and pick them up.
Last week, this beautiful tree was struck by lightning and split right down the middle. It needed to be cut down as a result. Here you can see all that is left of it now after the tree service men were here.
It makes me a little sad that this had to be cut down because in the springtime, this tree is one I always look forward to seeing when it is covered in blooms. This is a picture of how it looked in bloom in the springtime. I'll miss seeing it there.
I read in the local newspaper that they are making different sections of the hospital different colors. Supposedly, this is to make it easier for visitors to locate the area they need. It seems to me that just giving the wings each a name and using the room and floor numbers would have been sufficient. It seems to work in other buildings I've been in.
I had been under the impression that they were going to make the new addition match the original building. Obviously, I was very wrong about that as you will see in the pictures I took.
This black part is the back of the hospital. It isn't finished yet, as you can see. I don't know what color it is going to be when they get it finished.
The brown brick part is the original building.
They do have windows installed in this part now, but the outside wall isn't finished.
Here is some more of the original building on the south side.
This is where it starts getting strange to me. Next to the original building on this side it is orange.
And as you can see as you move on around to the east side of the building, it is green. What?! Green? Really? Orange and green and brown? Don't forget there is also that black section we already walked past. What color is that going to be? Whose idea was this to color code the sections of the building? Why were these particular colors chosen? Couldn't they have come up with some kind of color scheme that was a little more aesthetically pleasing? Am I the only one that thinks this is all wrong? Am I the only one who thinks these colors clash and that artistically this addition is out of place in style and design with the original building? 
Here at the east end, it is all green and very update and modern looking. I think that it looks very nice, but that it doesn't coordinate with the original building at all.
As we come back around to the front of the building, we can see where the new green part joins to the original brown brick part on the north side.
As I walked away from the hospital and back towards home, I saw these black eyed susans and some sort of purple flower planted around this utility box. I guess they planted the flowers there to kind of disguise or make prettier the ugly green box. Well, that works on the other side, but not so much on this side. 
I took a couple of close up shots of the flowers.
I thought I'd show you how busy the street is here that goes by the hospital. It is one of the two main roads that come into town and intersect at the courthouse square downtown. As you can see there isn't a car in sight. Sunday evening in a small town doesn't bring a lot of traffic. 
I walked back through the neighborhood on some smaller side streets. I went past this back yard that has been newly landscaped. It is very pretty and looks like it must have been expensive to have this all done. I am left to wonder, though, if it will really get used very much the way it is intended or if it will end up just being decorative. It seems to me that it would be easier to just mow the back yard if it were all grass than to keep this area maintained and weed free.There are two separate sitting areas. This first one has benches.
The second has chairs around something circular, which I am assuming is a fire pit or grill of some sort, but I'm not sure.
A couple more blocks closer to home, I walked past this ornamental grass that was growing in someone's yard. It is pretty, I think, although it seems a little out of place here for some reason. It seems like it ought to be growing by the sand on the beach of the ocean to me.
I'm almost home now. I come upon all these tree branches out by the side of the road. They have been put there for the city crews to come by and pick them up. 
Last week, this beautiful tree was struck by lightning and split right down the middle. It needed to be cut down as a result. Here you can see all that is left of it now after the tree service men were here.
It makes me a little sad that this had to be cut down because in the springtime, this tree is one I always look forward to seeing when it is covered in blooms. This is a picture of how it looked in bloom in the springtime. I'll miss seeing it there.
