Things I've not seen before today

On my third day I appear to have run out of spontaneous ideas. It’s actually a lot hard than you’d think. I see something and I think to myself, well, there’s nothing new there, as I walk past that building, sign-post, or shop front every day. So today I’ve been a little unimaginative, and I’ve taken a picture of my bus ticket. I get a new one every ten trips, I don’t get one for a longer period because I don’t always take the bus, I have other means of transport, and so I’m not convinced that in a single month I’d use the bus enough to make it value for money. The bus journey is the very opposite of an experience I’ve never had before, I see the same people every time I ride the bus, and on odd days, like today, a Thursday, for example, the woman with the two kids who don’t behave themselves gets the bus. When I take the bus on Thursdays I feel uneasy. If the bus driver has to break heavily, which can happen to a bus driver every so often, then her sons often end up crying when they bang their heads on the seat, or their mouths on the metal handles on the back of the seats. It's sad when the mother then shouts at the bus driver for breaking heavily and causing her son to injure himself. But it’s not the driver’s fault. A strange sequence of events I've seen on more than one occasion.
Anyway, this is my new bus ticket, which for twenty quid a week, will get me to work and back. I’m not sure how that relates to the cost of petrol in my car, but I don’t have to drive and i can stare out the window, at new things: I don’t mind the trip too much.

So this was the dilemma on my second day, and you’ll notice it also in my third day. I wasn’t really sure what to take a picture of, what constituted something I’d never seen before, and how I could calculate what was new. So here are some daffs I saw outside a florists on 2nd January. As a whole the experience was a new one, even though none of the component parts (daffs, 2nd Jan, that specific florist) were. I’ve never seen daffs outside a florist on 2nd Jan before. I thought they looked nice also.
I haven’t really yet decided whether I should talk about the new things I see. I’m no great authority on the many things I might put in here. For instance I’m sure that in antiquity flowers were symbols of newness in dozens of ways, but I’m not about to look them up and pretend I know about them.
I don’t really care much about flowers, I like buying them for my girlfriend, mostly because it shows I care, and I know she likes them. And she really does like them, properly, she’s a fan, like people are fans of books, music or paintings.
I reckon I walk within about 20 metres of this florist’s front door on a daily basis, sometimes I don’t quite walk past, other times I do, but it’s typically on my horizon every day. So it was nice to see something new outside it. Where as previously I wouldn’t have taken any notice of their shop front, today I took a greater interest because I was looking for new things.

On New Year's Day I saw this tree, it?s in Christ Church Meadow in Oxford, my home town. As I walked past it pushing my month old daughter it occurred to me that I'd never seen the tree before, and that I should take a picture of this new experience. Whilst I was thinking about this I decided I wanted to record something I experienced or saw each day which I hadn't seen before that day.
So on new year's day it was this tree with the crazy pollarding, which caught my eye. I like the way the trunk splits but continues to grow in the same direction. It's old and hasn't been pollarded in generations. In spite of the attentions of some long past grounds man the tree has found away to grow as it would.
I had some thoughts about how to structure this idea, the key thing being that the photos I take should be of something I'd not seen before that day. I thought about what camera I should use; as normally I only have a mobile phone on me, but I aim to use various cameras over the year and capture the differences between experiences.