Carpe Diem!

Douglas Healey for The New York Times. A traffic-signal box in a park in Stamford seems to echo its surroundings. Local artists have been painting the metal boxes.

Today's New York Times has an article, "On Traffic-Signal Boxes, Art That Stops Traffic," about how traffic-signal boxes in Stamford, Connecticut are thought of as opportunities for public art installations, and made over--a classic example of making lemonade from lemons.

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