Looking and seeing............

Brain Pickings reviews On Looking:  Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes.  In it, the author, Alexandra Horowitz, creates "a record of her quest to walk around a city block with eleven different 'experts,' from an artist to a geologist to a dog, and emerge with fresh eyes mesmerized by the previously unseen fascinations of a familiar world.  The "art of seeing has to be learned," but, if it is, we can blend "the mindfulness of Sherlock Holmes with the expansive sensitivity of Thoreau."  Hmmm.  Sounds like a book for the shopping cart.