Why is the sky blue?

I love perfectly clear and cold days. I also love taking pictures on such days as the sky has turned a deep, clear blue. The kind of blue you see when you look at the oceans in a photograph of Earth from space.

Yesterday some coworkers, my boss, and I traveled to Durham for a couple of meetings with developers and between the meetings we walked around downtown to check out all of the redevelopment that is greatly turning the city around. Here are a few shots and the rest can be found here.

An old Pepsi ad on a building. I really wish it would have been Coke instead.

The former SunTrust building

Golden Belt Manufacturing Co.
We also at at Mellow Mushroom at American Tobacco so that made the day even better.

In other news, there was a running race in Raleigh this morning called the Krispy Kreme Challenge. It's a fund raiser for the NC Children's Hospital started by some NC State students a couple of years ago and involves running 2 miles from the NC State bell tower to the Peace Street Krispy Kreme, eating a dozen donuts, and then running the 2 miles back in under an hour. With the number of friends that are starting to run in races I've been thinking about it for awhile and have run regularly off and on for the last year or two but haven't had great discipline of staying in a routine which leads to quickly losing any fitness gains and starting all over. Donuts may provide some added motiviation other than getting in shape. While it's a year away and I may forget about it, it sounds like a lot of fun, though that is a lot of donuts.