Streetlights

The streetlights were orange tonight. In my hand was a few sticks, the feeling of the weight kept me going straight. They were light in someways good for a fire. But my job was just to get rid of them, in the cover of darkness. The whole time I was thinking about something else. Now I am back in an air conditioned room separated from all that noise. Crickets or cicadas? I saw two frogs or one was a toad. But I don't really remember what I was thinking about. Maybe it was about the climbers all alone without ropes. Why do they look so long directly in the face of death over and over. I read an interview that people say their food tastes better before they do a climb like that. I was thinking about something like that, heating pizza rolls in the microwave because the oven takes too long. In this month alone I have used more mayonnaise than most go through in a year. Thats how I want to leave my mark on the world. But I can't stop thinking about how orange the streetlights are, or that someone in the neighborhood complained, but I don't know if I would have noticed white light ones. 
I always enjoyed noting the different colors of different streetlights in different places. GR was always orange at night.

I think this are most common in Michigan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-vapor_lamp
2022-09-04 11:52:10
I've never explicitly noted the colors of 
streetlights
like Jack, but I have had many inspirations because of different streetlight colors.

One of the snippets I shared in our old 
Writing Club
was inspired solely by the way the orange, tall street lights looked in one particular road connecting 
Lansing
and 
East Lansing
... I tried to create a scene where the college kids are heading back after a big meal at a 
diner
-- inspired by 
Fleetwood Diner
in Lansing -- where I wanted to recreate the emotion of having feelings while driving back under those orange lights in the middle of the night.

there's much variation possible there. It can be a drive alone, or a van packed with people. The music might be on... and if it is it can be any diffrernt type of tune... like wise if the music's off then the characters might be listening to something else. Their engine? their AC or the window is open and there is the sound of nature or urban ecology.

It's a scene I could write 1000s of snippets for 
2022-09-04 14:20:54