I took a different route home today. Here are some of the things I saw:
- Five unblinking cats, camouflaged by the brown-and-black facade of the house they appeared to be guarding
- A man rinsing out a toilet for repurposing as a planter
- A miniature Stonehenge in an otherwise unremarkable yard
- An angry note addressed to Portland Power, inscribed on a phone pole from “the honey suckers who used to live here”
- Two people drinking on their roof
- Two other people smoking on their porch
- An older home repurposed as an emergency clinic
- Gang tags, executed by scratching them into the moss growing on a retaining wall
What do you see on your way home?