[Leica] Friday Follies

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Nice variety today.

On 10/9/20 4:58 AM, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> Greetings to all.  This week we will stay well within 1 kilometer from my
> home.  We chose this neighborhood for it's vast diversity in all respects.
> We start with a section 8 housing(lowered to low income housing)
>   development that is usually behind a gate to limit access.  When the
> landscapers were busy I walked in and found this:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/woman+with+birds+abstract+modern.jpg.html
>
> The restaurant that this sign advertises is a popular fried chicken and
> beer emporium.  Did I say very popular and perhaps an institution in 
> Austin:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Lucys.jpg.html
>
> This is in an alley near some restaurants.  I have no idea what this
> references or why it was painted as visibility is very limited unless you
> are taking a shortcut through the neighborhood:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/JELO.jpg.html
>
> Going north from the alley and then east on a surface street you come to
> this wall abutting a restaurant.  I guess art takes many expressions but
> I'm going to guess this artist stays up way to late at night:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/test+pattern+wall.jpg.html
>
> Several blocks north and on the main surface street is a small
> bodega/grocery specializing in organic produce, imported good wine and
> spices for non-european cuisines:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Our+Lady+of+the+Radish.jpg.html
>
> Last for today is a mural on the patio area of an Italian restaurant.  Many
> weeks ago I showed another mural for a Fellini film and this one is next to
> it:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Matrimonio+all+Italiana.jpg.html
>
> All the best until next week.
>
-- 
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA