It hasn't been the strangest 24 hour span I've ever had, but it is in the top 20 for sure. I've had more than 10 assignments in the last 24 hours ranging from illustrations to tragedies. I took some portraits, covered a play rehearsal, watched a detective look into a hole in the road to see what was down there, saw the worst wreck I've probably ever seen and covered little league baseball and softball. The full gamut of life. The pictures above are a sampling of what I took since yesterday evening.The ups and downs of what we do can sometimes leave us numb to what we see. We don't suffer the tragedy quite as hard, we don't experience the joy quite as high, and sometimes we miss how cool the subtle things are until we sit back and look at our take, what we photographed and witnessed. Its pretty important stuff really. And the mundane stuff is sometimes the most important thing we do. I enjoyed watching a detective get down on his knees in the street to investigate a hole---it sort of capped off the night tonight in an absurd way that made me think about the accident I had to photograph late last night in which a person lost their life and how these two events happen in the life we live--all around us. Taking notice of them hopefully helps us be better people. I think thats why I love working for a newspaper--to take notice and help out by doing my job so that others can also have the abilty to take notice too. Even if it is just a 10 year old playing baseball or a musician playing in the pit at a theater or a little girl holding onto her carnival prize. Meadville Tribune photographs by Richard Sayer