Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Of the murals, I like the last one best. But my overall favourite is the mailbox. I hope those ?weird? people will be able to resist the gentrification. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman photo at frozenlight.eu http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu YNWA > On 30 Jul 2022, at 11:46, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > Greetings to all. This week is all about walking about Austin. The first > image is from a retaining wall across from St. Edwards College: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/stay+fierce_001.jpg.html > > Normally this mural is covered by plants but the garden center cleaned up > the growth one day: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Garden+center+office+mural+facing+Congress.jpg.html > > You saw this image before when it was on a fence blocking sight lines to a > downtown hotel. The hotel commissioned another mural and painted over the > original copy. Some artist moved it to a fence blocking a residential > construction sight: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/copy+image+moved+from+Congress+to+1st.jpg.html > > South Austin is a weird place. South Austin refers to land bordered by the > lake to the north, Ben White Blvd to the south, I-35 to the east and maybe > the main line railroad that bisects Austin. We are in the midst of > building mid 7 figure houses and significant commercial building and yet we > have long time residents being weird: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/cat+on+mailbox+stage.jpg.html > > Bouldin Creek cafe continues to provide visually interesting graphic > images: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Bouldin+Creek+door.jpg.html > > Just a nice graphic on a possibly vacant building: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/2424+1st.jpg.html > > All the best. > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information