It was hard to resist this sweet little display outside Metropolitan Lumber on Spring Street.
Three white Calla Lilies in a sawed-off water bottle quietly perched beside a pallet of concrete mix: literally, beauty and grit side-by-side.
There was no time to stop and ask the smoking, tattooed employee where the flowers came from, but we figure it had to be a good Samaritan finding some discarded blooms and giving them new life. The decision to put them outside for all to see deserves Flowerbox Award praise.
In the future, please feel free to capture images of said tatooed workers, too.
ONLY to reinforce the irony of the visual juxtaposition.
Yeah, that's it... juxtaposition.
To tweak p2's request -- there needs to be close-ups. AND a close-up of the calla lilies, as the only thing about them that shows here is their context.