I’m currently reading a book called “The Art of Noticing”, by Rob Walker, which is essentially a treatise on why we should put away our phones and look around once in a while. So far it’s been an excellent read, very much in the vein of “How to See”, a fantastic photo book by George Nelson on identifying and cataloguing interesting themes in the world around you. In an attempt to put this into practice, I looked for something of interest on my motorcycle ride into work the other day. Though relatively banal, the first thing that caught my eye were the registration stickers on the cars around me. Just the day before I’d explained the process to my kids as we put a shiny new yellow 2020 sticker over the blue 2019 version on our car. As I rode in, I decided to conduct a quick experiment, counting the blues versus the yellows. This being July, I thought about 7/12 (~58%) of them would have already transitioned over to the 2020 version. I gave after I hit 50 yellows to 41 blues, which came out to 55% of the population….kind of a neat way to tell what month it is. Just by opening my eyes a little.