Patti Cryer - Noticing

This is nice.

Maybe I'll sit on this back porch for a little bit longer.

And then happenstance had me pick up a book called The Art of Noticing.

And in all honesty, I didn't read it cover to cover.

I read enough to be curious and started taking the time to, just when I walk my dogs in my own neighborhood, take pictures of things that caught my eye.

And then I began sharing it on Instagram, the art of noticing.

And this was, I think, last October or so.

It hasn't been a long run necessarily.

And my photography skills are none.

I don't, that's not the goal for me.

It's the scavenger hunt.

That part is fun.

Ooh, what am I going to find today? Okay.

And much like a raccoon, I started finding shiny things and rusty things and started collecting, honestly, picking up things in parking lots.

Smash Coke bottle tops or the tab.

There was a pile.

I would say there was probably 200 in tabs off of Coke cans.

And I picked up three or four of those in the Walmart parking lot.

I don't know.

And I don't know why.

And then time would pass.

I would take pictures of things, photos.

Either the color would catch me or the shadow would catch me or the odd two birds sitting on a wire.

And I giggled and thought, that's a speed date right there.

You know, I tried to capture that.