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The barista at the front counter of the Waves coffee house wasn't waiting to take my order; she already had a slice of gingerbread loaf plated and the POS display was beaming with the details of my large, extra-hot, dark mocha. I forget what I said, but her reply was: "you're the high point of our day!"

What do you say to that? Not what I said -- something like, "that's sad," and how maybe they don't get out enough. It's a reflex on my part. I have trouble taking compliments gracefully, if at all. My people-person barista said as much; chiding me: "Don't refuse the compliment; accept it!

Good advice. What did her partner-in-java, who made my dark mocha, think of my gauche behaviour? Well she made a face. Click the image to enlarge.

[caption id="attachment_4406" align="alignnone" width="497"] Corner of Broadway and Spruce at about 11 p.m. Think the curtain of light may be a bus. If so, it's the best thing transit's done for this cyclist in years. Click the image to enlarge it.[/caption]

 

Homeowners tell me ivy's a weed, nearly impossible to eradicate once it gains a foothold. I believe it; the stuff leaves scars when you pry it off a wall -- but it sure is purdy! Having thought high heel pumps on overhead wires was worth posting, I couldn't ignore the scene just steps East of the pumps. Don't know how recently the ivy started up onto the power line, but I'm interested to see how it grows, and how long before  someone takes it down. And, apropos of nothing, a picture of the mocha I drank while blogging this. Click on the images to enlarge them.

What was brewin' at Waves Coffee? Another bruin-topped Mocha, of course. I think Kiran, the un-bear-ably clever barista, has all but perfected her latte art technique on this one. How quickly the extraordinary can become ordinary. I'm already pining for a panda. Don't forget, it's always delicious, no matter what it looks like. Click the top image to see it larger.

Waves barista Kiran has outdone herself! Usually, when I post a photo of a coffee I've had at Waves coffee, on West Broadway and Spruce, I tag it as a secondary item at the end of some other post, but today Kiran's dark mocha creation takes first place.

"No one is talking but everyone is on the phone!"

Overheard at the Waves coffee shop at West Broadway and Spruce. A flock alighted, and sat as a group. One of them looked up to note how they were ignoring each other, and quietly thumbing their phones. I enjoyed a large, extra-hot, dark mocha, this one topped with the challenging steamed milk design known as "birth of a nebulae."