Fire Hydrants

Yes, fire hydrants.  An odd thing to motivate me to blog again since it's been a little long since i've posted.  However, I've become strangely obsessed with fire hydrants around this town for the last week or so.  It started when I noticed Tyler Water Utilities painting the fire hydrants on Copeland Road one day when Gavin and I were buh-riding after school.  I never paid much attention to them before, as I'm sure not many people really have, but I started to notice them.  Which ones had been painted, which ones were still faded.  Which ones were all red and which ones were red and silver.  How many different shapes they seem to come in.  And how close together they are in some places and seemingly far apart in others.  I know.  It seems I surely have something else I should spend my time thinking about.  Like how am I going to get my 2 year old potty trained before his third birthday so he can go back to school in the fall.  Or even what the theme for that third birthday should be.  But the idea that these little gnomes have always lived among us and I've barely even noticed them before is somehow fascinating to me.  So when I saw the Tyler Water Utilities truck pulled up to our closest fire hydrant, I had to sneak out and shoot a pic.  I'm sure if anyone saw me they thought I must be crazy...