41.   When they arrived, the Marines found construction equipment, technical diagrams and even fresh paint.

42.   Workers applied fresh paint and made repairs at the subway stop closes to the convention site, which serves as a basketball and hockey arena.

43.   A newer building, where a Russian segment of the international space station was assembled, gleams with fresh paint and paneling.

44.   At ceremony venues, workers applied fresh paint and laid red carpets.

45.   Businesses have reopened, people have returned and once-destroyed homes are slathered in fresh paint.

46.   Colorful billboards, bright awnings and illuminated shop windows enliven the once-dull landscape along with fresh paint and plaster.

47.   Fresh paint brightens such enterprises as the Chicago Bulls Hair Salon.

48.   Fresh paint is everywhere.

49.   Here on what is called the Azalea Coast, historic homes shaded by live oaks dripping Spanish moss are getting fresh paint jobs for the tricentennial.

50.   It looks like the building pictured above needs more than just a coat of fresh paint.