Long Walks Accomplish Things

Took my visual communications teacher's advice and did a bit of wandering and looking today. I like to wander and walk in the first place, but I paid more attention to the things around me this time. Well...most of the time. Seemed like the only time I ever completely zoned out was in the middle of a busy street. Probably not a good place. I walked for about an hour and a half from my doctor's office, ignoring all the buses on one street. I was tempted to walk all the way home, but the bus that goes to my house pulled up just as I was walking by the stop. Anyhow, I looked at the fronts of people's houses. These houses were the small, boxy and rectangular kind, but it was amazing how different they were. I saw at least 2 bright purple houses, a lime green one, more pink ones than I thought existed, a REALLY bright blue one and another in which I spent a few minutes deciding whether it was yellow or green (I settled on grellow). A lot of people had cute little bird-baths, wooden crafty things, wind chimes, and ceramic animals, which told me someone who likes nature, crafty items or decorating lived there. The houses with little upkeep, overgrown yards, worn-down siding, rotting porches and sidewalks with weeds growing between the cracks told me the owners were either busy, old or lazy (or all of those). One house was the perfect "I capture and eat children for breakfast then use their bones to build common appliances and furniture". I'm not exactly sure how you'd build an appliance out of bones...but definitely furniture. The entire house was run-down, bushes growing over and covering the path leading up to it. Weeds were everywhere and the grass was already starting to get unruly. Cracks in the wall, broken shutters on the windows, a very steep grey-shingled roof and a very un-kept sidewalk. Might have been a little creepier because the sun was blocked by clouds and it was raining. All that was missing was the thunder and lightning. Running away from that tangent before it gets any longer...I also saw houses that were perfectly clean, up-kept, plain, painted, and had straight, even and evenly green lawns. I'm guessing neat freaks and perfectionists live in those ones. A lot of them had sitting areas and lawn chairs out front for people who like to sit and relax, watch the world and chug coffee. People who had kids were easy to identify when toys or bikes were lying out front. Not too many of those. Another rarity was houses with nice gardens. I only saw about two or three of those. I guess people are too busy to work for hours on those things. Either people who love to garden or old people lived in those ones.

All in all I just found it interesting. I may do my coms project on it, but I'm not too sure yet. I keep getting new ideas. I think I'm just excited about running around taking pictures of random things, creeping people out at the same time. I just love how our prof is encouraging us to stare at people at school or on the train, and look at things we normally wouldn't. And that sounds really...creepy. Muaha