I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door

And then today the ceiling repair guys came over again. This so the person who's actually scheduled to fix our kitchen ceiling could look at the job and size it up. He's planning to get to work tomorrow, which is great, at 9:30 am, which is less great. I'm sure I can survive the agony. I hope.

Now let's return to Glenlore Trails and see the strange world within.

The first big setting, a sort of Northern Lights fairyland, with the strange curving shapes meant to evoke the aurora. Small lights flew back and forth across a scrim to suggest magic spirits moving around.

Some of the twisty lights wrapped around trees to hep them look stranger. Notice the fiber-optic-tree on the right.

Some more of the northern-lights twisted weirdness and meshes. Some of the lights are buried under the snow.

I'm not sure whether the figures in the background right were meant to be deer explicitly or just to suggest their look.

Lights on the ground, buried under the snow, something that could never have been seen in the days of incandescent bulbs.

I tried a few shots of the scrim with the projected Northern Lights on them and this is about as good as it got. If I had a manual focus I might have succeeded at this.

Trivia: The German Imperial Flag, a tricolor of black, white, and red, combined the black-and-white colors of the Prussian flag and the black-red-gold flag of the Revolutions of 1848;
Source: The Invention of Tradition, Editors Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger. Hobsbawm (author of the chapter this is from) notes Otto von Bismarck endorsed this flag but seems not to have cared about the symbolism particularly.

Currently Reading: Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America, Herbert Asbury. ``Abilene, Hays, and Dodge City, most celebrated of Western cow towns and the stamping ground of Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hockok, Luke Short, Jack Bridges, Billy Tilghman, Wyatt Earp, Mysterious Dave Mathers, and other famous frontier peace officers and gun-fighters ... '' I would like to know more about Mysterious Dave Mathers and apparently so would his contemporaries!

PS: My Little 2021 Mathematics A-to-Z: Ordinary Differential Equations, as I get my A-to-Z fairly restarted and ready to stop for good!