Everything was smaller than last year (which was smaller than the year before that...), with the exception of the sidewalk chalk art, which continues to spread further and further from its origins on Madison Avenue above the Art Center.
This year, I finally did the thing I'd been saying for years I would: do my own sidewalk art in front of the house. With black tempera and a roller, I painted a narrow strip on the edges of the sidewalk in front of the house, on the Jefferson side. Then, up one side and down the other, I used an assortment of brighly-colored oil pastels to write "...and God said," [insert Newton's formula for light here] "...and there was light."* I interrupted the formulae to add my favorite (and most relevant) quote from da Vinci, "Mathematics is the alphabet in which God has written the universe."
I liked it well enough that I'm already thinking about next year. I think a border on the sidewalk again, maybe a selection of quotations, or a poem.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "I notice that you've actually linked to a site where 'God said' Maxwell's Wave Equation 'and there was light'."\
\\John says, "I couldn't find a link to the site where I first downloaded the page of Newton's formulae."//
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "By the way, it's pretty dark in here. Could you spring for some LEDs?"\\
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