wishing for a camera
Today is a good example of one of those days where I wish I had brought a camera. There was this large freighter parked at the grain silo. It was a classic design, from what little I've observed. It looked to be 50 or more years old, but that assessment doesn't do justice. It was so old and rusty, it looked like it might break in half. I mean, if they had cared at all, they could have at least scraped some rust off and spared a little more paint for it, but I guess that would have undone the "most dilapidated boat" effect they were trying to achieve. And so I had a little chuckle when I saw the barely readable name painted on the side of the boat... I didn't know why such a long-suffering old boat would be named "Joyous Age", or whether it referred to the Joy of the modern era of which it did not belong, or a joyous days gone by, or just a sarcastic joke about the hardships of growing old, but somehow regardless of what it meant, somehow the irony seemed purposeful. Not sure, though. I didn't recognize the flag on the ship at first, and had to look it up. It was a Hong Kong flag.