Passed pants

 

They passed!

 

It is reassuring to find a "passed inspection" slip of paper in the back pocket of a pair of pants.  Thank you, Inspector 57, for your diligence!

A different pair of pants - the same size, but a different color - also have an inspection tag from Inspector 57 in the button-closed right rear pocket:

Another pass!

Inspector 57 must be the specialist on this size of pants - they can be any color, as long as they are this size.

A closer inspection of the two inspection paper slips reveals that something is awry.  

 

On the first inspection paper, the text says "Inspector:57".  That should have a space:  "Inspector: 57".  Or, no colon, as in "Inspector 57".

On the second inspection paper, a space has been inserted to now say "Inspector: 57".  However, the item inspected is now called a "porduct", as opposed to "product" on the first inspection slip.

 

Inspector 57 may be doing a great job, but the inspector of the inspection paper slips is slipping up.

Wild tulip

 

After a rain

This wild tulip - Tulipa sylvestris - appeared several years ago in an untended part of the garden. How it got there, when, who - is all a mystery, but the  bloom of the woodland tulip is looked for each spring.

Hidden grafitti

 

What's that say?

 

Written on the steel basement doors of a discount store, and hidden by the store's outdoor merchandise stand, years later this graffiti remains pristine, and, still as undecipherable as when it was first written.