We have another sick fish. We've put it in a quarantine tank and applied medicine and salts and all, but our track record is poor. I noticed the fish lying on its side, rarely a good thing, especially when it just stays like that. It looks like scales have been flaking off, giving the fish a beautiful look, really, glittering in the light. It's a big one, too, with great delicate fins. Losing any of them would hurt, yes, but this has to be one we've had eight or nine years. It can't be the water quality; I had just measured it hours before discovering the fish (where was it hiding?) and that was perfect. A different tank than this one is having a small ammonia-nitrite-nitrate spike. Not a big one, but one I worry about because it seems this time of year we always have an ammonia spike that taxes the fish. But no, the sick fish is from the tank that had zero ammonia, zero nitrites, zero nitrates, just like you'd get in water out in the pond where there's a whole ecosystem keeping things healthy. This suggests disease, but from where? The only thing introduced to the tank recently has been food and that's, you know, food. So it's a mystery and we hope for good news but I can't expect it. Let's go back to late January (remember January?) and wanderings along the Glenlore trail, with its Aurora light show. The tree with long strands with globes on the end. The globes were on tethers that stretch out and back, so the tree moves around a little jellyfish-like. The pathway to more trails. You get at least the implication of the lights' animation from this. And here the halfway point in the trail (I think); a Christmas tree of light and many stands of light around it. Also the footsteps that suggest either staff going in to fix something or people who figure there's no reason they can't just go up next to something they want to photograph. There was a staff person standing by there to remind people to stay on the trail. bunny_hugger getting some pictures of the trail; look at how tall those trees are. You can see the staff person on the left side of the path, middle distance. Also, if you look to the right, a projector with the animated snowman telling corny jokes. I think this is the station where they talk about their kids being on the Winternet. Looking back the way we came because I love these long arcs of light. Also, some lights buried under snow, you can see. Did I mention the Christmas tree lights color-shifted ? Because the Christmas tree lights color-shifted. Trivia: In 2004, Hong Kong exported 313,000 Trailer Equivalent Units (a standard container-cargo volume, about what a twenty-foot container holds) to the United States, and imported 1,138,000 TEUs. Source: Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed The World, Brian J Cudahy. (One imagines some of this surplus was sent to China, but they already exported about 4,500,000 more TEUs to the United States than imported, that year.) Currently Reading: Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America , Herbert Asbury. In the closing chapters it gets to Manhattan's famous House With The Bronze Door, and this causes me to realize I don't know whatever happened to the Bronze Door. The building's not there now (the location is a dim sum restaurant huddling near the Empire State Building) but, like, where did the door --- a 15th Century door that one story says once led into the wine cellar of the Doge of Venice --- go?