On the weekdays Teen Angel works until closing time at the bakery downtown, I have about thirty minutes to fill between the time I get off work and the time I need to pick her up. My job is literally about a minute and a half from the bakery, so it’s a short drive. It’s a great time to take a few pictures but not a long time, so I usually end up scouring the same two block area around the bakery for photos. I’ve been doing this for weeks, so it has become a challenge to find new stuff to photograph there. However, just about the time I think I’ve picked that area clean, I stumble onto something else. This exercise forces me to explore details and things that seem average but really aren’t. It also teaches me to see with new eyes things I’ve been looking at and looking over for years. I’m discovering that beauty and art are everywhere. It’s certainly in nature and in architecture, and occasionally it’s deliberately placed there by the skilled hands of someone who had a vision, waiting for someone like me to stumble into it.
Yesterday, I tripped over this:
Handmade tiles which cover the front of a restaurant that closed a few years ago. I’m not sure what the artist’s inspiration was, but I like the results. I’ve walked by this building dozens of times, but yesterday was the first time I really NOTICED it. Hundreds of colorful tiles, each one a little different and each one a burst of rainbow. Each one beckoning me to marvel at their color and to enjoy the journey I called Tuesday. Acorn anyone?
9 comments:
nice posting.
Stunning! They are not going to rip them out are they? That would be such a shame.
I love it when I remember to stop and notice the little things. It seems to easy to forget at times.
I love them, too. Great post and photos.
Beautiful! They are all so chaotically different, but somehow they all work together. I bet there's a lesson in there, huh?
Beautiful post and awesome tiles!
the colors are amazing!
Its amazing what you see when your looking through the lens of a camera. Thats a good thing, it does teach you to be still and take in your surroundings. Great photos, such vibrant colors.
They really are beautiful. I ventured downtown before I came to work this morning, riverfront and onto Ky ave. I noticed they are doing work on the corner brick (2nd going toward Ky). I wonder what that is going to be.
Those are stunning! I love the line about the blind squirrel, I'm going to have to use that sometime...today in fact, I will have to sedge it in somehow.
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