Spectacular and Mundane

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So, last Friday, as I wandered back to the office from lunch, along Wood Green High Road came, amongst the grimy buses, taxis, and general populace, a glass-sided hearse occupied by a handsome mahogany coffin with its brass fittings shining in the sun, heaped with flowers and drawn by two enormous black horses with plumes bobbing from their bridles as they walked solemnly along.

Anyone who knows Wood Green High Road or another semi-suburban high street will appreciate that this was a sight of breathtaking incongruity. What things have you seen on your daily travels that combine the beautiful/startling with the ordinary/dull?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I looked quite hard for an existing question to put this in, but it's just one of those things that needs its own category.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw a pheasant pottering about on the pavement on my way to work the other day. I still haven't come up with a satisfactory explanation for why it was there.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah... I once saw a pheasant in the middle of Detroit at this out-of-the-way art gallery/performance space. Twas about dusk and it was pecking at the gravel. Apparantly Detroit has a fair amount of pheasants (for real).

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 31 March 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw skunks in downtown Vancouver. It was amazing.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 31 March 2003 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

in kyoto and a few other japanese cities, there are miniature deer that hang out in parks around the cities and eat from your hand.

one day in early fall I was leaving work and walking through the leaves, & saw a little green leaf made out of construction paper, with drawn veins, and it was kind of cool in a way I might describe as postmodern and then feel dumb for having done so.

― miriam (serrano), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

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