Brass Bowl

A heartening sight. Surveyors working on the streets. Somebody wants to know where a property line is. Usually when this happens, things get built. What you see here is a Back Sight (Triple Prism) set up on a known point. The man in the distance is also set up on a known point, and after sighting on the Back Sight and establishing a base angle, he has swung around and is now shooting a laser beam to the Rod, being held by the Rod Man to establish a new point.

At least, this is how I remember it being explained to me. If I’m wrong, please add a comment and let us in on the real story.

Buses were lined up on Franklin Street near the Tampa Theater yesterday. I hope the kids enjoyed the day out of the office. It doesn’t come that often once we grow up.

The Brass Bowl tribe took a jaunt to Melbourne this weekend. While we were there, we eased over to the Art Festival going on downtown. It was pretty packed, and pretty hot. We saw lots of neat stuff, in all kinds of media. Spousal Unit got some earrings, and I purchased the obligatory tee shirt.

Yesterday in Gaslight Park, Voices for Children held their 4th annual barbecue for the benefit of the Guardian Ad Litem program. I showed up around noon, and it looked like a couple of hundred people were there, including a local TV crew. I saw untold numbers of people with takeout containers as I walked to and from the park. And the barbecue was good! Shane’s Rib Shack provided the eats. You can learn more about this wonderful program here

This historical marker is at the southeast corner of Madison and Franklin streets, right beside Tampa Police Department’s Big Blue Building.