First day back at work today after a couple of months off and meandering.
Leaving the garden behind this morning, my feet muddy from the wet soil, heading out along College on the streetcar for the first time in weeks, after a few blocks the driver leaned deep into his horn and the brakes but too late, too fast, nothing could stop him and he rear-ended a taxi, totally crumpling the back half of the car.
All of us passengers fled the scene, the streetcar driver slumped depressed over his steering wheel, the taxi driver strangely indifferent.
Ahhh, the city…
Now walking to work, I run into an old friend, a friend I haven’t seen for maybe 5 years and we kiss each other and hug again and again – it has been so long, too long… I am suddenly grateful for the streetcar driver’s misfortune.
Now rushing to work, the day is beautiful and the city vibrant, so wonderful to be in it, feeling the heart of it, not thinking about the absurd, if entertaining dramatic spectacle that has gripped city governance for the past weeks.
Opportunities for photos abound, and indeed there are signs everywhere, too many signs, the city is rife with signs.
Some are intriguing, cryptic in a playful way –
Others are strange in that futuristic sci-fi dystopia movie kind of way…
…especially as there is NO blue door in sight.
Others are attractively bilingually cryptic in a way that is repeated again and again in different languages all over the city –
And others just seem to have been very badly located –
But now very very late for work on my first day back, I run up the stairs and face the door with the sign leading to the floor that will be my daytime abode for the next couple of months…
The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge can be found here.
follow your nose 