Little things

"When I was a little girl, my mom told me that I was always late to school. One day she followed me to see why. I was looking at chestnuts falling from the trees, rolling on the sidewalk, or ants, crossing the road, the way a leaf casts a shadow on a tree trunk ... Little things."

--- Celine, Before Sunset

I never had to do much walking to school. As a kid, the going-to-school routine involved dashing out the door before I missed the school bus or my ride. The only walking I did was between the front door and the vehicle, and between the vehicle and the school entrance.

Now, I take about a ten-minute walk to the bus stop, take a five-minute bus ride (excluding waiting time), then walk another ten minutes to get to work. Lots of time to stand and stare.

Okay, usually, I just stare (though not the "what the hell are you staring at" kind of stare that Mark blogs about) but today I stopped to stand, stare and snap, often enough to almost be late for work.

First, there was a black cat snoozing on the roof of a white car. Dramatically striking, but the few pictures I snapped off before the cat woke up didn't turn out very well. I swear, cats have a sixth sense when it comes to sensing digital cameras activated within a one-metre radius of them. So you'll have to use your imagination, with a little help of wahj's newly created Singapore Cats pool at Flickr to help you.

Then, there were mushrooms.


(Cropped with Terz's excellent assistance.)

Edible? Smoke-able? I dunno, I just take the pictures.

Then there was another cat, this time white, but it was in a difficult-to-photograph corner in a drain, so no pictures of that either.

To make up for it, I took a picture of what was next to my feet at the bus stop.



I have no idea what this does, but it's good to know that my tax dollars pay for some subterranean and no doubt highly efficient system of lightning protection.

And then I was almost late for work.

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