Roxanne -You don't have to put on the red light

This morning I was planning to head to Time Square to get some shots as the forecast was for the rain to stop at between 6 and & do I brought my tripod into the city, but the best laid plans of mice and men, as they say, when I got to the city it was a light rain and now forecast to stay that way till between 9 and 10, so instead I headed to the office, so not photo walk as such today but between meetings ad such I managed to get over my 7.5K step goal.

Todays theme I went or are street lights, but before getting to that writing the first paragraph made me think of two things.

1. Why did I get into the Telecoms and IT field where everyone expects you to get it right every time, if the phone or network is down for even just 5 Minutes people are in an uproar, but if a weather forecaster gets it wrong, well that's just expected.
   and 2. What is the origin of the saying I use now and again ** the beat laid pains of mice and men**

Now I know it means no matter how well you plan something can and often may go wrong, but I didn't know or had forgotten the correct saying is The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry and is adapted from To a Mouse by Robert Burns who was a Scottish Poet, sometimes referred to s the National Poet of Scotland and lived from 1759 to 1796.

And the Full wording as originally written is

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy.
And if your wondering about the start of this post you will have to read on and see why I went for Roxanne.

And onto Street Lights Starting with a couple of shots of Street Lights Lamps I have seen around the city, I don't know why I am always looking at them and getting shots of the Street Lights and lamps, but maybe I could say that about many things :)

This first one is on one of the buildings in the Tudor City area

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And this next one I think is along Sutton Place also in Midtown East

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I took a few shots on my walks today and here they are

This first shot is when I came out of Grand Central Terminal, it was still fairly dark and the street Lamps caught my eye and led to all of todays shots

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Just down the street I spotted more lamps and additional light bing added by the flashing lights of the Police car, which is what brought up the title for tonights post, when I saw the red lights flashing (although I did this shot in Mono) I thought of the Police Song Roxanne, which has a line Roxanne you don't have to put on the red light

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Now I liked the last shot better in mono than color, even if it had the reds and blues of the Police car lights, but for this next shot I went with a closer in shot of a street light which has some reds from the police lights.

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Now the first few shots are of fancy or stylish street lights but some are more functional such as these under some scaffolding I passed by today

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Now back to more stylish lamps, one in color, which is kind of cool, but also kid of Creepy with the dogs head coming out of the wall in the background

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And one in Mono

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And here is a link to the song i mentioned

And that’s all folks

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