Or funny and sad, in two parts. First, the funny (and cute) part: I was just walking down an alley in an unfamiliar neighborhood, looking and photographing. Then I came upon this building
with a pair of vent shafts behind a railing. The pipes looked for all the world like a big brother and a little brother looking out a window, watching the world go by, perhaps pointing out interesting shapes in the clouds to each other. Maybe this sounds a little odd, but they were "adorable" -- at least I found them so.
Now for the sad part. While preparing those images to post them, I was reminded of something else, something truly heartrending. Some time ago while cruising the internet I had come across these images of captive animals in a zoo, pining for the freedom that is rightfully theirs. The murals of their former environs decorating their cells serve only to cruelly tantalize them -- they are "looking", but not "looking out". I wonder if they know that they will never be free again.
