The Splenda *Sara

This site is just plain beautiful.

But more specifically, it's these Little Public Plaques that I'm interested in. Finding things like this online is easy enough, but in meatspace it's rare, and infinitely more romantic. I guess I'm just a sucker for stuff like this, beauty in the benign, the unexpected, the flower in the sidewalk crack. It's always a perk to stumble upon such things, especially while traveling (bum poetry I found one time written on strips of paper in Sacramento, an old lighthouse for sale in northern Michigan, "RATM" sprayed on the sidewalk in Sarajevo, stumbling upon the Temple of Mithras on Queen Victoria Street).

Statues, too, though usually rather dull - some forgotten or overblown figure from history obscura - occasionally find themselves worthy of a second look.