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Cycling my kid to school this morning I saw someone standing next to a busy road with an easel, painting. It was so jarring, in a way that seeing someone painting by the river isn't, even though they were painting the trees in the distance. The jacarandas are blooming here.

I wonder what it would feel like to have transport corridors that it felt natural to paint, full of beauty and people and plants?

On the way back from school there was a kid, around 7 or 8, cycling on the road (a local road, with the current speed set at 50km/hr) with their parent. This is so unusual to see that I recently got told off for doing the same with my daughter, a similar age, even though it's entirely legal.

I cycled that way a little little longer than I usually would, partly out of surprise at seeing them.