8th November 2005, 7.30pm: Pollokshaws Road, Gorbals, Glasgow
The umbrella still there - the bottom end of Pollokshaws Road - on the grass by the council flats. It was there bunched up, there in the corner of my eye as I passed this morning too rushed to stop. It is there still, but now opened and upside down; perhaps tried out and then rejected all over again.
I circle the scene and nearly decide against stopping: watching warily a car of kids looking on from nearby. In the end I tell myself to stop being stupid and collect the picture, quietly and surreptitiously and then move on.
