Reason for a Change-Mitch’s Blog

I took the day off from work, as I was scheduled to sing at the expected long lines at the polls today. I started at 8:00 am, but it was cold and there was no one but the workers at the polling stations. I checked all my spots, and so got to ride around town quite a bit. It is amazing how beautiful the town is in spring and fall, and I just cruised around absorbing the colors.

Fall in Bloomington

Down near Templeton School, I found a bunch of kids playing in the street, and they were making some incredible chalk drawings. I told to be careful of the crazy people in the cars, but there are no sidewalks, and they seemed to own the space.

Chalk on the road

I went to the County Courthouse around 5 pm, hoping for a line, but no go. Deke was there, ready to play, as was Katie Hicks with her fiddle. Deke and I sang some tunes, and then Katie and I jammed on some tunes, while Deke took our picture. The one below was fuzzy, but cool, so I ran it through some filters to make “impressionist” rather than photorealistic. Yael showed up with Jarno and Solveg, she did some recording for WFIU. We hung out in the dusk, I got to play with the kids, and finally it was time to go home and make dinner, Eileen worked at the polls all day, from 5:15 am till after 8:00 pm, quite long workday!

Katie Hicks and Mitch play tunes