temporary darkness

Tonight, riding home, I found a temporary darkness.  The city is "beautifying" the 10th Street corridor between Woodruff and Rural.  They have bumped out the curbs and this spring will probably see some flowers planted there in the new patches that will be green space.  I bet Keep Indianapolis Beautiful will even plant some of their yellow daffodils.  The daylight in the spring will last a bit longer and dawn a bit earlier.  But, for now, the darkness.  The installation of new street lights has deemed it necessary to shut off the power to that little beautified corridor for a while.  And each night that I ride that tiny tunnel of darkness, I look up to the heavens, and I see stars; the original street lights.