I would like to make a request for any cell phone towers on park property: Please put red dimmer lights on top of the towers, not white strobe lights.
I think those strobe lights are ghastly to look at, and can destroy otherwise beautiful night-time scenes. Try standing on the hill at Farview park at night, and look at downtown Minneapolis. The view is badly damaged by the nauseous strobe lights on top of the garbage burner. And hasn't anybody driven at night along, say, I-90, enjoying the brilliant starry sky, only to have the scene destroyed by epileptic pulsing white strobe lights blasting away? Maybe I am the only person on the planet who thinks that these white strobe lights are ugly visual air pollution, but please save us. Jay Clark Cooper P.S. Responding to urgent queries from concerned Nokomis residents: the loons I saw waddling around Lake Nokomis are of the winged variety, not the two-legged variety. P.P.S. Weird bird update. As of 8:00 P.M. last night, there were still loons on Lake Nokomis. Their ancient and melancholy calls pierce straight to my heart. They have been joined by pie-billed grebes and flocks of mergansers. Great blue herons have also made their first majestic appearance. And while not quite qualifying as weird birds, I have also seen bats darting around street lights at 50th and Woodlawn. A hint for those who enjoy watching great blue herons: go out to Lake Nokomis (or Harriet, Calhoun, Grass, etc.) after 10:00 P.M., and unobrusively approach a street lamp that is near the water. There is a good chance that you will see a great blue heron in the water opposite the street lamp. I think the herons are using the light from the street lamps to help them hunt for fish at night. REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
