31 March 2026 – Good grief, I sound like an infomercial. But what’s a girl to do? There I was, after posting Old & New, minding my own business, waiting for a #99 at Ontario & Broadway.
Just across the corner, I see this:
What?? I investigate.
A whole new, and agreeably perplexing, category for Old & New.
Very old stop sign, its official cap long gone, plus, up there on top, a very new burst of mystery greenery.
Nothing special about either the stop sign or the greenery, except the combination of the two.
What knocked the official top-of-sign off the sign? What then deposited enough city grit & grime in the sign pole to form a growing medium? How long did it take? What then (wind, bird, Act of God) deposited mystery seeds — plink!!! — so precisely into that growing medium? When did that happen?
We’ll never know, and it doesn’t matter.
We can just take it as it comes. A mystery gift from the city, to us.
WALKING WOMAN 
Lynette d'Arty-Cross
/ 31 March 2026I am always amazed at those sorts of things. I love this one in particular!
Bronlima
/ 1 April 2026Things like thix shoild not stop!
Liz
/ 18 April 2026That greenery coming out of the pole of the stop sign is rather intriguing how it got there.
icelandpenny
/ 18 April 2026My guess is that once the protective cap was somehow dislodged, then — also somehow! — enough organic matter accumulated to sprout a seedling that later blew in (or was pooped in by a bird…) — saw it again today, taller & bushier than ever