Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

About a month ago, I drove to my local Safeway only to discover that construction had begun behind a shut-down restaurant which is located west of the grocery store.  I was also surprised to see that one of the two entrances that go from the side-street to the Safeway parking lot was fenced off.  That seemed really strange.  I thought Safeway must have charged a lot of money for that privilege.

Soon a big metal structure rose from the ground.  I had never seen anything like it.  Was it an elevator shaft?  That didn’t seem right.  This didn’t look like any normal building site.  I asked the staff at the grocery store, but they didn’t know either.  Someone said they thought the restaurant was being torn down.  I knew I could have asked the construction workers, but I assumed they were interrupted with that question many times a day.  I decided to just let the mystery unfold.

I took all of the photos in this post this morning.   I love that you can see the moon beside the crane.

Yesterday the mystery was solved.

No wonder it didn’t look like a normal construction site!  I have wished for some time that we could have a Safeway fuel station reasonably close to where I live so that I could take advantage of the store’s gas discounts.  There will soon be a station less than a mile from my house!

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