Sometimes it seems like there is a huge cloud of gloom hanging over Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and if you drive five miles in any direction, the sun is shining brightly. The past winter was long and cold, too much snow, and we all needed spring. This video was of the flowers blooming and people moving about in vehicles that are not constantly sliding into each other.

Abby Road Zebra Crossing

These are a few of my pals in Meadville who agreed to help me with the picture. The guy on the far left is British, and he informed me that in England this is known as a "zebra crossing," pronounced zeb-ra, not zee-bra. We had a lot of fun making the picture, but it was difficult. I thought of using a stepladder, because the in original Abby Road picture, the camera was slightly elevated, but I think it came out OK. There wasn't much traffic, thank God. The name of the park where it was shot in Meadville is "Diamond Park," so I named the photo "Abby Lucy" to commemorate Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds as well as Abby Road.