Benespection

Another busy month has passed by, and it's not long before the year has passed by completely. It does seem that 2007 is flying past and it's starting to really irritate me as I cannot find any major personal accomplishment this year. There are accomplishments there, but nothing spectacular.

Lately I've watched everyone around me fall ill as we move into Autumn and finally succumbed to a particularly nasty cold about a week and a half ago that's done a fantastic job of drowning my brain-cells in snot. I still managed to take photos of a few things however, and I thought that I should once again wrap up the month using my invented word.

Life rolls on…

⚐ Apparently small road markings aren't painted on with stencils in Belgium. Here, pre-cut shapes are melted on to the road surface, which I thought was bizarre. According to the oracle this is called hot tape and is an old technique.

⚐ Cranes may be such a common sight in cities these days that people have learnt to ignore them, however this little cluster prompted a photograph which unfortunately didn't quite come out as I had hoped — bloody camera phone.

⚐ While the STIB have started to focus on comfort, the new metros have seats in the end carriages that remind me of the seats in McDonald's “restaurants” from the 1980s. There's something about beige plastic seats with false wood panels that will probably always remind me of McDonald's.

⚐ Possibly the only good thing about pollution is that it can warp sunsets to the point where they can be very spectacular. I caught this one evening where the sun appeared enormous, with a rich blood-red colour. While the photo doesn't do it justice, I thought the contrast between where the sun had painted the monochrome buildings and where they were in shadow mixed sharply with the fading cyan of the sky.

⚐ You don't normally see so many baguettes being transported on a tram.