Day 299/365

     Saturday's/day 299's belated posted comes to you from C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor. I went down to the hospital to see how Jessica and her donor Brian were doing after having a kidney transplant operation done this past Friday. Both were still going through the more uncomfortable stages of recovery, so I opted to come back Sunday/yesterday/day 300 to see if they were feeling more up to having their pictures taken. 

     While I was waiting to take to a P.R. rep. from the hospital though I got to hang out in the pretty spiffy lobby. The hospital was redesigned last year to be more colorful and fun, with sparkly floors that glitter even more when the colored lights on the ceiling reflect on them. Totally worth the trip down.

Day 224/365

     I ended up having to work Monday night instead of having the day off as originally planned. I covered some high school sports and some early trick-or-treating, and a sad story about a family's dog who was killed by loose neighborhood dogs. I was in a weird mood after that one, but the amazing sunset managed to make up  for it a bit. 

Day 193/365

     One of the assignments I covered today was the scavenging of lumber from the historic Mill End building in Bay City that's scheduled to be torn down in the near future. The lumber from the floors and shelving units are being donated to the local Habitat for Humanity to sell in their resale store. We got to walk around all four floors and the basement of the building, which was cool and sad at the same time. It really is an interesting building, and it's too bad that it's too expensive to refurbish everything that's wrong with it. We had to wear masks and go outside for breaks every once in a while since there was asbestos found in a good amount of the materials, (which is why more can't be donated or saved). I ended up taking the photo from today's post in the basement of the building. The building's owner, the Habitat for Humanity director, an MLive reporter, and a college student that was shadowing me today were standing at the base of the stairs talking, and I liked the way their shadows mixed with the colored reflections from the glass panes in front of the stairs on the floor above.

If you'd like to see other photos I took at the Mill End building today, you can find them on MLive here!