January 25: Broke My Mother's Back

"Step on a crack, break your mother's back." WTF does that mean? What's the correlation? I don't get it! 

I did a little Googling, and among other things, here are some other things that can occur as a result of stepping on a crack:

Stepping on cracks also had significance for children. In the mid-20th Century it was popular to tell children that if they stepped on the cracks in the street, they would be eaten by the bears that congregate on street corners waiting for their lunch to walk by. 

Also, the number of lines a person would walk on corresponded with the number of china dishes that the person would break, later in the day.

Anyway, I did like the pattern on the ground and the way that the pavement appears different due to the road salt. Canon G1X ISO 200, f 2.8, 1/500th.