Oddities

OUTSIDE THE AIRPLANE WINDOW

An iPhone camera somehow turned the whirling blades of a turboprop into a sculptural object in the skies over Wyoming.

LEAVES WITH EYES

Trying on a ghillie suit at L.L. Bean's hunting & fishing store in Freeport, Maine. Taken with an iPhone.

PETRIFIED GIANT CORK?

Or perhaps an Alien toddler's top. This rock was lying as you see it alongside the loop road in Badlands National Park, South Dakota.

MISSPELLING WRIT LARGE

It survived the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, but Hilton's hotel next to Ground Zero did not clean up the error of its name. "Millennium" has two n's. Think of all the towels, uniforms, stationery and signage that would have needed fixing. No wonder managers at the hotel claim the misspelling is deliberate to create buzz. Yeah.

LANTERN LIGHTS

These adorn the ceiling at the railroad-themed restaurant-bar of the Erie Hotel in Port Jervis, New York. The trains still run just behind the place.

A MATTER OF TASTE

A display of pigs feel for sale at a butcher shop on 9th Avenue in Manhattan.