I love that wherever we are in the world, be it a hilly hamlet in the ‘burbs (hello, Novato!) or a bustling metropolis like London, we can, at any given time, find things that are weird and wonderful.
For example, I walked into Safeway a couple weeks ago to get some kimchi.
Long story, but there aren’t any Asian grocery stores in Novato, and the closest one is about 10 miles away, and I didn’t want to hop on the freeway.
Anyway, I went to Safeway to get some overpriced kimchi, and where I walked in was on the side with the floral department.
Boom! I walked into a deluge of these crazy blue orchids… It was kind of surreal! Like I was in a sci-fi movie.
I remember reading someplace that blue is the rarest (or one of the rarest") color in nature, and it did feel weird to see so many blue flowers concentrated in one place.
They look like technicolor flowers, don’t they" Actually, I don’t know how I feel about them… On one hand, I can’t stop staring, but on the other hand, there’s something a little off about them.
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