This is probably because these days about the only time I ever spend any time walking around -and subsequently appreciating - downtown Columbus is when I'm about to leave Columbus for Chicago,
As always, this trip began when we stepped out our front door at 7:35 am and started off down the street rolling our luggage behind us through our now tree-decimated but road-widened neighborhood (see post from 7/21/2015, "Good-Bye, Trees").