Noticing Small Things

Artistic former window above Vervesdijk.

Lovely modern frontage with superb
Art Deco? window, top left.

 It seems to be a common feature of experience in Lock-down Times, that people are noticing, or celebrating, relatively small things, or previously unnoticed minor details, as life’s tempo has slowed. In that vast group of Seeing Features Normally Unseen, have come for me some beautiful touches of Brugge which I have been able to appreciate, often for the first time. Here are visual proofs of a late-onset ability to notice more, to be more alert to, delightful little features of the cityscape around me.

Part of the beautiful remaining 13th century walls of Brugge.
View from Pottenmakersstraat across the Augustijnenrei .

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Above the heads of passers-by on Langestraat.
Think they used to be coloured; now a chic black.

On Steenstraat, beautifying a fairly ordinary
brick building above a shop.

Dancing girl beneath the trees
along the Coupure.

In Flanders' fields the poppies grow ....

Added because it is the most 'solid' reflection I have 
ever seen in a canal. Carmerbrug in distant centre
taken facing the corner of Spiegelrei.

Artistic former window on Vervesdijk