I don't take enough time to document things that catch my attention. Simple things that pull me out of my normal mindset and just let me look at them for a quiet moment. A few things that caught my attention recently:

• This alien shadow being cast from apartment utility lines across the street from the hardware store.

• The variety of beautiful blue- and purple-blacks on the back of a raven and their confident, yet awkward saunter while they size me up.

• The scrawling of a code on a sidewalk, repeated over and over until it was illegible but left a wonderful texture.

• The color of the sky after dusk last night driving to the airport. The double-decker bridge cropped the sky and framed the most beautiful soft and intense purpley-pink.