What if I did a thread of just repairs? Beautiful, beautiful repairs? An infinite thread?
Like this one on a semi truck parked at a construction site that my flame spotted while we were adventuring last week (we both like to go check up on street reconstructs and stuff).
Or concrete patched/repaired in a current favorite parking ramp?
A huge patched wall, east of Transfer in St. Paul.
Mortar repair adding interest.
An old snow emergency sign cut to fill a hole in the concrete on a pedestrian bridge.
A chainlink fence repair (my favorite kind of fence, in part because their mends are always sooooo good!)
And another chainlink fence 😍
Some serious brickwork repair, complete with arches, love that they didn't even try for a color match!
More chainlink fence. I love the cat and mouse and cat and mouse of all of it!
Brickwork repair.
Repairing a chainlink fence with a bit of barbed wire.
Some chainlink fence repairs along Bassett Creek. If you wanna see the cat and mouse of humans in a tangible but displaced object conversation with each other, this one changes every time I walk past (maybe every few months at most, but still!).
I feel like this is kinda stretching "repair" even for chainlink, just, like, wiring on an entirely new object to fill the gap?
Marble tile repairs in Mpls' city hall.
A bit of metal siding mending 💙
Some chain link fence, horizontal wire repair, and even a possibly structural barrel?!
I’m counting this one as a repair.
Going with the invisible repair on this wall here.
A little long-ago blueprint repair.
I’m counting this “S” as a repair, inasmuch as it’s a physical replacement for something broken/missing.
A bench designed to be repaired (and not hostile to a little change to lie down too!).
This wonderful upcycled walkway over a boggy crossing totally counts as a repair—it’s laid atop the older, more treacherous zig-zag plank crossing.
Another ziptie car repair!
Brickwork repair.
Random business corridor decorative sidewalk brickwork needed some repair.
Minneapolis currently replaces entire otherwise-good concrete panels (hundreds of pounds each) when roots and freeze-thaw cause them to become uneven. Many other places shave down edges to bring them into alignment again, as shown here.

(Concrete is super high CO2 emissions.)
New favorite repair, over by the Mississippi River. These bars/brackets are hopefully stabilizing the retaining wall near where bald eagles nest.
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