pockets of sunshine

I don't live in a chic city like New York or some other exotic place in Europe.  I live in suburbia.  Strip malls (and shopping malls) abound, and it is challenging to find something interesting to capture.  There are, however, little pockets of quaintness, which can allow me for a second to imagine that I am living somewhere with character and personality.

"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it." {Charles M. Schulz}