in plain sight

Perhaps it's just because our brains are generally used to what they generally see most of the time that makes the palette of negatives so unpleasant. Unfortunately I wasn't anywhere today where there was a conveniently-placed orange on top of which a couple of black plastic drinking-straws could be arranged, but found an orangey building instead. May I offer my thanks to that slightly-non-orthogonal member for being ideally-placed to cross one of the others at the right angle from the POV of the ground.