I couldn’t resist this challenge! There are so may things out there that catch my eye for their incongruous nature. Sometimes nature creates a heart from a tree stump. At other times, an old gate hides a funny little man with a flame hairstyle and a padlock nose. Turning down a corridor in an abandoned buildings, you can bump into the Grim Reaper guarding the door to the next floor… here are a few unexpected sights that Candide Canon and I have come across on our travels.
Multifarious meanderings
The odds and sods of everyday life.
Multifarious meanderings 
I wouldn’t want to use the shower with the scary man. nooooo
I prefer this cheerful guy- you can have the next shower along. It has a man hanging from a rope. I have a feeling our artist friends were having a bad day.
That was my thought too. I’d rather be dirty and smelly.
I was replying to Pecora Nera there and after reading your response, MM, I think I’ll just ride out of that town.
Come on girl, show us some gumption! No, rest assured… the showers have been out of use since 1984, when the building was closed along with the rest of the detention centre. This building was the medical block – the place has a very strange atmosphere.
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What a brilliant gallery of the unexpected! 🙂
Thanks, and welcome to the madhouse!
Wonderful slide show of unexpected choices. 🙂
janet
Thank you, Janet! I’m off to have a look at yours now.
These are great — very creative choices and certainly unexpected!
Thanks for visiting – I’ll go and read up on your tutorials and see how I can progress in photography!
Awesome — I’m always writing new ones so just let me know if there’s anything in particular you want to know about; always nice to have some new ideas.
Some cool and surprising pictures in there!
Thank you, and welcome to my pad 🙂 I’ve had a look at your blog – your header pic is fabulous! Did you take it?
Every picture produces a story. Love them.
If you have a vivid imagination, each object is a source of amusement… sadly, in reality, some people just don’t see the heart or the little man, but everyone notices the rude ones 🙂
I can’t even pick a favorite!! Maybe the last one (O) I needed a good laugh! Have a great weekend.
Hi Kathryn 🙂 That last one is a tiny detail in a historic village near my home. Visitors never see the full moon over the sculpter’s door – they’re too engrossed by the big picture.
PS YOu have fabulous weekend too 🙂
These are wonderful! So many are playful.. and a couple simply shocking. LOL!
Thank you! They are things I noticed when walking around looking everywhere except where I was going. I have been much more careful since I read about your pavement-kissing experience 😉
Great set of pictures…..the teddy bear is bizarre..
That poor teddy bear had me all sad. He looks like he’s been strung up for execution.
So cool. Love it!
Glad you enjoyed them 🙂
Great photos, MM. I enjoyed the little frissons of surprise. 🙂
Thank you! Some on them (ok, half of them) were below the belt, but that’s the way things are with MM sometimes 🙂
What fun:) Love the grim reaper.
He’s freaky, isn’t he? There were lots of great 3D effect pictures in that building.
You have a good eye for the weird and the rude! As I would expect. Very entertaining!
Cheers, me luvverly. I have a knack for seeeing rude things that aren’t supposed to be rude – I pointed out the willy staircase to someone who said, “I don’t get it, it’s a staircase”, and looked at me like I was one can short of a six pack. Ok, so I am, but nevertheless, I felt a bit crestfallen….
Well I got it straight away so maybe we’re both one petal short of a flower!
Aww, I like that, flower 🙂
Love the shower.
It’s all for you, Andra – Miss Cuttlefish and PN have both chickened out. 😀
Ha ha, love that staircase! Great pics 😉
Sexy, isn’t it? I can just imagine the first visitors arriving on horseback and chokin back the laughter when they arrived in the courtyard …
Eek! I wouldn’t be able to use that shower again! And the South of France one makes me think of the staircase image..
The South of France is a very sexy place, ideal for people who hold hands all the time like you two 🙂
Oh, the South of France one is actually a mother holding a child on her lap. unfortunately, the sculptor didn’t think about how it would from the side.. 🙂
These were excellent! The shower guy is creepy as heck and I always appreciate photos with accidental penises because I am not a grownup and I do not see a rusty gate.
I’m glad you’re not a grown-up. There don’t seem to be many hanging around this blog, either… and I’m guessing that the few there are are closet kids. THe shower guy isn’t half as worrying as the guy who has “hung” himself in the next shower stand…. There’s a post about graffiti somewhere in the archives, with pics of all the other works of art in the building..ummm… here you are: https://multifariousmeanderings.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/urban-street-art/
I love the angel.
Eek! That shower guy is creepy! Not sure I’d want to see the hanging one! The grim reaper is excellent… someone is very talented, if a little macabre in their thoughts! I bet that building had a really eerie feel about it! Your interpretation of the staircase design cracked me up and that little sculpture is very funny! 🙂
It’s a very eery place to be – it used to be the medical block for a prison for youngsters. You can just feel the depression in there, and the artists have worked along that theme, I guess.
OMGosh! I had to slow the slide show down and pause it to see what the sculpture on the right was!! Hahaha!!! That is hilarious! I want one so I can give it to old lady who lives across the street from us. She’s on the Condo Association Board for our condo and she complains if our car tires are touching the grass. I really think this sculpture would be most appropriate for her!! 😀
LOL! I can find out how much they cost and give you the address if you like – it’s in the village just down the road. I just LOVE neighbourhood bossy-boots who think they run the place… Sometimes they get into very difficult waters that way.
Oh! That would be great! Do they ship to the U.S.? Lol because I could just put the statue in our yard! There’s a rule for our neighborhood, “No objects allowed in the grass.” I will put it in the grass that way she can come over and inspect it for herself! haha!
I can ask them 🙂 I’ll keep you up to date 🙂
Awesome!