On an Afternoon Walk - Back Alley Art Gallery

my eyes spied 

brilliant and beautiful hollyhocks, busy with bees and wild-ing on brick backed buildings among wandering weeds, fronting graffitied brick

Artwork from amateur to amazing ~ flashing bright, weirdly whimsical and one a bit scary!

At night, while the city sleeps

alleys are busy with phantom artists 

decorating straight and stolid buildings, 

hidden away in these dumpster galleries; 

brilliance and beauty ignored, 

neglected and invisible except when trash is taken out.

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

~ Banksy

Squirrel Chatter

 

Nerds? Are they ever without a camera?! I wasn't even posing; she just about caught me! But I scampered ~ that is the word those two legged things say ~ down from a really good branch. I had spied a rather juicy morsel and I just had to get to it before any of my buddies did. I was really more interested in food than if I was presented on Facebook. 

“I’ve changed my mind. I don’t want to be 

a squirrel any more. I’d rather be a bird!”

~ Erin Hunter, Moonrise

Activism

Over the top belief ~

Is there really such a thing?

Definitely!

A wrong to be righted

Activism born ~

Speaking out and living loud

Social norms

Reshaped to fit the need

Over the top belief ~

Is there really such a thing?

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, 

Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

~ Dr. Seuss, The Lorax