The simple things in life that are amazing and overlooked

There's a certain joy in an urban setting. Many people look at the paved streets and the stone buildings in downtown as being cold and uninviting. But if you look at it the way I do, you can see an overlooked art form. I love going into, and looking at the outside of older buildings here in Winnipeg. Back in the day when they built buildings a little more for looks as opposed to practicality and uniformity. If they wanted a curved front, then the stair case behind that curved wall got smaller. Trying to imagine the tedious and intricate work put into the fancy stonework pattern on the front of the building. You can see where a window was taken out and filled in with bricks, or where bricks were taken out to form a window. Those little things can help one to extrapolate some history from the building. Why did they need a window there? Or why did they build the staircase there, instead of over here? When I'm downtown waiting for buses, or even while traveling through on the bus, I am always entertained by examining buildings and thinking of all these little things. But most people can't understand the fascination.

Jam it back in, in the dark.