There is No Such Thing as Bad Weather

I am acquaintances with a British man who is overseeing shipbuilding in the deep south of the United States, and he articulated to me one day that, "There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing." Given his heritage from England and his current situation in Alabama, I was inclined to believe his observation.

Today, I must have had an abundance of inappropriate clothing because the eleven miles that I covered in a steady rain with a fifty three degree topping of the thermometer and a brisk north north westerly breeze.  I went out today unprepared.  What is doubly annoying about this situation is that I have about $300 worth of Under Armour Cold Gear hanging in my closet.  Be that as it may, since this was the first day of truly autumn-like weather this season things went pretty well under the circumstances.

Cannons or Bollards?

I ran across these interesting pieces of kit down along the Anacostia River Walk this morning in the vicinity of the Washington Navy Yard.  Clearly they've been placed along the waterfront to be used as bollards.  Given their shape, and the fact that each and every one of them have a large calibre hole coming up through the top, I'm beginning to wonder if they might not be cannons that have been repurposed at some point as bollards.

The Washington Navy Yard was a hub of industrial activity up through World War II.  There was a sizable forge, and the gun factory produced 16" naval rifles used on the battleships during the war.  It is not too hard to imagine that through the history of the yard that excess cannons were recycled into the bollards along the Anacostia.

Now that I have the pictures, I'll just have to make a trip over the museum on the post and inquire to the hereditary of there innocent posts for tying up ships in the river.