Robot Dreams

Carrying my new camera around all the time, it's clipped to my belt now, you start noticing all kinds of stuff you want to take a picture of. It's been a while since I had that view of the world, last being during college while taking the photo classes. So I'm in the strange situation of having to restrain myself from taking too many pictures, as otherwise I would spend all my time posting them. Time I can't spare since I have a bunch of work to do. So for today I have two different perspectives. My usual lunch schedule is to do a working meeting, and I eat lunch and talk about work. The usual lunch location is Bagel Art. They have a running child art wall for the kids that frequent the place. It's always fun trying to understand that lost perspective of being that young:

The Chicagoland area is currently in it's Spring peak. Which for Evanston, which prides itself in an abundance of trees, means there are many flowers, birds, and small mammals. There is a large variety of trees here, but I found one that I found rather strange:

So, what's strange? Take a close look at the scale of that plant. At the bottom right is one of the many birds, which makes that tree, about 2.5 feet tall. All I can think of is "open ground Bonsai tree."