Small Stuff

George Eliot / Mary Ann Evans, from "Adam Bede" (1859):

Let us always have men ready to give the loving pains of life to the faithful representing of commonplace things, men who see beauty in commonplace things, and delight in showing how kindly the light of heaven falls on them.

Some common things recently seen on our fair granite isle in the morning light.

Broom, Crosby Street:


Sign, posts, and hydrant, Vandam Street:


Bucket and tape, West 3rd Street:


Bicyclist, trees, and wall, Sixth Avenue: