Flowers on a Cab, originally uploaded by Grim Santo.

I wanted to post these a lot sooner. I do believe, if you live in the NYC area, that you have spotted these cool looking cabs with flowers painted on them. They’ve been around for about 2 weeks now, but do people know why these were created?

The reason why a couple thousand cabs in the city are decorated with these kick ass flowers is because Sept. 10th, marked the 100th year since the very first cab existed in NYC. It is a celebration, which I think is a wonderful way of celebrating a century of existence.

Why does this matter? Personally, I wanted to share because I, along with my students, worked on these cabs. The whole project was completed by volunteers. The people who coordinated the painting sessions, the people who painted, the people who helped prepare the cabs and tarps, it was all through the wonderful work of VOLUNTEERS. I am glad to be in that pool. I also thought this was a great way to begin promoting the “GREEN NYC” campaign that Mayor Bloomberg has in mind. I’m not sure how well that will work out, but it definitely brightens up my day to see these cabs around.