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.

Fence repaired with a strap/webbing

A weld on an old sewer lid. Used to be partly covered with sidewalk concrete, and the theory is that in hammering the concrete off, they damaged the lid as well, necessitating the repair.

More brickwork repair

Painted metal mesh repair (and venting?) on a garage door.

This building’s brickwork (built with leftovers? repaired like this later, over time?) is my very very favorite thing rn

So many varieties of brick! I love the patchwork and function-first feel of this whole facade

A little homemade fence repair. I’ve repaired my grocery cart/chariot in a similar way.

Another fence repair, this one seeming to involve no added joining bits and relying instead on tension.

A repair on this old and no-longer-in-use beautiful machine. One of only a few repairs I could find on it.

I would like to believe that this is a repair, though I didn’t check under it to be sure.

One of the best wall repairs I’ve ever seen.

This wall was kind of a “pre-pair” where pipes were used not for flowering liquids but as an innovative part of a retaining wall. I got the sense someone had to deal with a catastrophic wall failure in the past and was over doing it again in their lifetime.

Loved this irregular and high contrast brickwork repair.

How about this methodical but not terribly secure chainlink fence repair? Are the people who cut through the fences (assuming that’s the story and it wasn’t wanted) less likely to do it again here because it’s just so clearly an individual’s creative handiwork?

A former window and the brickwork repair of its arched surroundings

What appear to be more “pre-pairs”—the wooded patterns here are on the surfaces that wear down fastest and first, helping preserve and protect the claw’s integrity. That’s the guess, at least.

Not a fan of removing decks and doors, but am a fan of visible repair, so it’s a wash for me.

Some subtle brickwork repair in this architects & engineers building. I also really love the way the big brick right edge was visually brought into the primary side brickwork as built. Well done and good collaboration, architects and engineers!

Just a nicely done concrete (?) repair on the same building. Love that it matches but remains visible.

Really fun layering here with smaller bricks repairing a larger bricks wall, in the middle of graffiti but without buffing it away. Plus lots of repair overall.