Post 32: More "just some things from today"

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I have been realizing, or maybe just noticing, how much the things I see guide me through the day. Actually pull me through it. (They are what makes time pass at all--they feel like minutes?) And I was thinking of compiling a few of these things as I had done a little in Post 28. There’s something about the casualness of this act that brings me pleasure, and it's a casualness that I have not felt in my recent posts, though is a quality I’ve been craving more of.

Presenting these sightings feels reminiscent of jotting something down in a notebook. Though, I'm not sure if it's just the documentation here that feels like jotting something down, because it may actually be that the presences of these innocuous scenes already exist as the jotting down. I guess it comes down to how much I think of these things as photos I create that write the story of my own walking around, or objects within the city's notebook that I cannot help but read as I walk.

Anyway, I spread out a deck of cards:


Comfortingly big rectangle with just one small detail (lock); reminds me of a loaf of bread and a bread clip. Forms made up of big + tiny such as this one have been interesting to me lately. (Also, credit is due to @nickbartwo, most specifically his usage of the lock emoji, for enabling locks to come into my purview.)

Serene irregular shape! How incredible it is when a black object can also be read as negative space. This reminds me of another clothing piece I saw on the sidewalk recently:


Insanely sneaky shadow guy.


I've been thinking about these water spigot handles again. Red up until this moment, but also now blue.


Brick on brick looks so darn good. Flowers wearing brick pants on a day where the weather is kind of bricky out.


I went to Trader Joe's and was truly in awe of how well-crafted and informative this 3-d watermelon infographic was.


I had some almonds and cherries as a snack and it just so happens that cherry pits look like the mixture of almonds and cherries.


A corner in a puddle of water, beautifully.

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