Vignette Thread

What is a vignette?
A vignette is a short passage of descriptive/poetic writing that captures a moment, place, person, feeling, or any manner of stimuli at a point in time. A vignette's success is to bring the reader to a particular moment and the feelings it evoked.

Hello all, I saw a thread like this on another site and I thought it was worth sharing with Melonland. This thread is to encourage other users to take some time to write about the beauty that can be found in day-to-day life. Feel free to share your own vignettes! I'll start with one of my own

The viscous air sticks my shirt to my back as the motor whines. Rumbles of other engines in the distance tell me that I'm far from the only one going through this ritual. Uniform grass satisfies, or at least satiates, the sensibilities of older neighbors, but my mind fills with images of a meadow in my backyard. One corner of the yard remains untouched; a tiny, overgrown sliver of earth along the ragged back fence. The shrubs and grass slowly take over the rotting remains of a plastic skeleton and vegetable scraps. It's not the manicured beauty expected by decades of suburbia. It is the organic beauty of chaos, growth, and decay. Or maybe I don't like cutting the grass.