Season with snow, serve under a tree

Street photography does this to you. You start noticing things you'd normally walk past. And once you've noticed, you can't stop asking. Who brought a frying pan to a park in February? Why did they leave it? Did they carry it from home, or did it come from somewhere closer? Was it a deliberate act or did someone just give up halfway through whatever they were doing? There's a whole sequence of events that led to this moment, and I'll never know any of it.

That's what I like about this image. It doesn't answer anything. It just sits there, the same way the pan sat there, and leaves you with the questions. Norwegians are practical people. We don't leave things behind without a reason. Somebody had one. I just don't know what it was.

The pan was still there when the bus came.