Things you see on your commute

In the morning I drive in with friends so they are people I often see on my commute. I don't really see anyone interesting on my commute home anymore really.

Years ago though there as this man on my bus who was amazing. He was maybe in his 50s with curly salt and pepper ringlets and he wore two little gold hoops earrings in one ear. In the winter he would wear a man fur and matching Russian style fur hat and sometimes he carried a guitar. One of my then co-workers rode the same bus as me and she and I were obsessed with finding out this man's story. After months of speculation she came running into my office one morning to tell me that she'd happened to spot him in a hair salon nearby called "H@ir by Denn!s". Naturally I needed to know more so within five minutes I'd booked an appointment with him. It turned out that he himself was Dennis and that he had owned the store for years. He was straight and single, sometimes played in jazz band, and had one of the thickest Boston accents I've ever heard. Dennis was actually pretty fucking cool and I had him cut my hair for a good couple months before I realized I was only going there for the company and that he was actually really shitty at cutting women's hair. I had to stop seeing Dennis. Sometimes I have to walk by the shop and I always look the other way when I do so because I'm afraid he's going to see me and then I would feel bad.

things I see on my commute

on the way to work:

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/19021918.jpg

Beacon Hill from the Longfellow Bridge.

one the way home:

http://www.pictureninja.com/pages/united-states/massachusetts/crazy-buildint-at-mit.jpg

these crazy-ass buildings at MIT.

Ha I didn't realize I put those buildings on here last year but they're really neat!

The Stata Center!

http://i41.tinypic.com/10wnn0h.jpg

today the Hipster Viking Games Programmer was wearing a scarygoround t-shirt

I ran through a mental filmreel of all the possible outcomes of an ugly woman on a bus blurting out some or all of the words "hey cool Scarygoround shirt, I love Bad Machinery", possibly not in an order that makes even that much sense because my brain/mouth interface hates me, at a younger hipper attractive dude, and decided none of them were good. so I did not

(must find the cable to get photos off my phone so I can have a less stalkerish, more architectural/waterfowl-based answer to this thread)

in the front garden of a corner house i walk past on the way to work is a tree, and in the tree is a cuddly panda. the thing is filthy but it appears to belong to the householder because it's been there month after month, sitting high up in its tree. the garden is neat and looked-after, with a little rockery and a cute plaque saying something to the effect of "home sweet home" iirc. i keep meaning to photograph the panda but i don't want to get caught.

http://i.imgur.com/RT4CxO9.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/BvyHHWW.jpg

So the original artist who painted this rock as a teenager came back to update it and match it closer to his vision of the alien being who visited him and inspired him to paint the portrait in the first place.

http://i.imgur.com/NmEIFYo.jpg

I usually don't care for the George Lucasization of artworks, but I'll make an exception in this case.

Every day I pass by a field that looks exactly like the default Windows XP background...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Bliss.png
...only without the mountain.

holy crap, there's a mountain back there.

New commute:

https://s21.postimg.org/igjtvm1w7/20160902_175414.jpg
https://s22.postimg.org/z4ochp26p/20160912_062528.jpg
https://s16.postimg.org/7m7wg1ab9/20160912_062646.jpg
https://s18.postimg.org/n1jdw56w9/Foxtrot_class_submarine_at_Strood.png
^Soviet Black Widow nuclear sub (not my photo, though)
https://s17.postimg.org/ay06mbixb/20160912_072345.jpg
https://s12.postimg.org/wxhm0k5wt/20160912_073407.jpg
https://s16.postimg.org/vf6ar39f9/20160912_073551.jpg
https://s16.postimg.org/573zl5c7p/20160912_073619.jpg
https://s17.postimg.org/45n2ji0zj/20160912_073830.jpg
https://s21.postimg.org/a3508pe5z/20160912_074135.jpg

New garda station being built opposite GMIT.
The Woods beside the hospital, still trying to think how far down inside them I went. Had been wondering how much of them there was, now know that there is a narrow strip that's about 200 foot deep that goes quite a wa. Very difficult to guage depth or anything from the bus.

The stretch of woods on the far side of the main road that I've passed for years and still never seen the extent of

https://cdn.houle.co.uk/images/Property/large/4/2015/3/3/clapton-square-hackney-e5-001101522_926535_IMG_05.jpg

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/09/11/091197_3db38fd4.jpg