Memorial Day means lots of visits to the cemetery and Monday there will be the honor guard and dignitaries and everything at the USS Maine plot so city workers have been busy spiffing the place up for the weekend. 
Happily though there are corners where the serene pace of daily living has not speeded up and these old tombs under the poinciana got their glory from nature rather than nurture. Leaves falling everywhere across town as the rains continue to tease us with their absence mean people have to sweep the street if they want a clean appearance in front of their homes:
It seems like a lot of work to me. The woman in the picture below had a defeated appearance but the mystery was explained when the other half of the operation appeared and took supplies out of the trunk of the car. She was just bored, acting as a doorstop for her store:
It seems to me it must be terribly lonely to be an Indian in Key West, a town that can't even sustain an Indian restaurant. We used to eat chappatis and naan a great deal when we lived in Fort Myers, a town strangely enough that supports an active Indian population.
Bicycle laws have been the object of much criticism in the anonymous column of the daily paper but perhaps the crackdown is having an effect. These guys waited for the green light much to my surprise before they crossed Truman Avenue:
It was the calm before the holiday weekend storm no doubt, no cross traffic on Truman.
Happily though there are corners where the serene pace of daily living has not speeded up and these old tombs under the poinciana got their glory from nature rather than nurture. Leaves falling everywhere across town as the rains continue to tease us with their absence mean people have to sweep the street if they want a clean appearance in front of their homes:
It seems like a lot of work to me. The woman in the picture below had a defeated appearance but the mystery was explained when the other half of the operation appeared and took supplies out of the trunk of the car. She was just bored, acting as a doorstop for her store:It seems to me it must be terribly lonely to be an Indian in Key West, a town that can't even sustain an Indian restaurant. We used to eat chappatis and naan a great deal when we lived in Fort Myers, a town strangely enough that supports an active Indian population.Bicycle laws have been the object of much criticism in the anonymous column of the daily paper but perhaps the crackdown is having an effect. These guys waited for the green light much to my surprise before they crossed Truman Avenue:
It was the calm before the holiday weekend storm no doubt, no cross traffic on Truman.
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Very nice that they waited. I have about had it with bicyclists here. They are a completely different breed here- completely. Bikers here wear togs and race around at top speeds. They are generally on exercise paths that are meant for ALL: walks/joggers/skaters/etc. (although biking is allowed but they are supposed to slow down for walkers). They fly by saying "on your left" just as they skim by you barely missing you. Today I watched a biker (a female) narrowly miss a woman with a stroller innocently walking. On the street they are almost as bad, riding amidst cars as though they own it. At least on the street if they behave that way, they are the ones who will pay. On the bike paths, the walkers are the ones who will be hurt. It is more than annoying, it's a danger. Makes me wish there were bike cops! I love biking and bikers in Key West- here they are like mosquitoes. A general nuisance with no real redeeming value.
So how do you really feel...?
They are from Bangladesh.
When I used to work on the waterfront I'd get coffee at the "Arab" (Eh-rabb) store on Caroline which recently changed hands. They too were Bangladeshis,so very likely the same family? Partition- another byproduct of Empire. I'm closing in on the end of Book Two of the Raj Quartet, which puts me in mind of it.
Could be related. Reason I knew is because the family that runs Charlie's is originally from there and they have a connection with the Olivia store family. You can also tell by the poorly produced films playing on the TV - sub par to the more 'sophisticated' Bollywood productions.
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