Blue Light Special

The Roediger House is downtown, and that gives me more than my fair share of emergency vehicle action. Strangely, a North Carolina highway patrolman is virtually never to be seen on these mean city streets. But while I was working by the fireside this evening, the flash of blue strobe caught my eye and I found there was a small measure of excitement out on Fourth Street. This picture is from the upstairs back bedroom, looking across the gravel lot beside the house toward the action. And yes, that's one of those honking big Hummer limousines parked in the far lot across Fourth Street. This is a happening city.