wall in parking lot

the parking attendent figured i owed him about a dollar. i handed him a 20. he said, ah, go ahead and pay me later... unless you want 19 ones. i took the ones, so i could tell the story later.

boy on stilts

public art around town - i sat on a bench underneath the boy - this is shot sorta 75% up.

bench art

one of many benches around town for strolling & resting. a nice looking older man giggled with me over my phone conversation here.

buckminster fuller

buckminster fuller (who invented, among other things, the biodome/tensegrity structure concept) keeps coming up. this was a design institute window, which i think is fabulous - conscious design and stuff. also, i am in this photo.

someone's gutters

taken straight up from the street.

practically san francisco

this church and hill reminded me of san francisco, so i took a photo while i waited for my light.

mural on wall street

it's a multi-sectioned mural. just a cool thing to look at.

cat climbing a streetlight

a cat sculpture in front of the "woof!" portion of the mural. there are 2 other cats without detail photos.

dancing couples

more random street art

3-legged turtle

me holding a 3-legged turtle at the nature center.

snake

she was really really excited about holding the snake. almost as excited as i was about my turtle.

deer

he has fuzzy antlers!

bear!

okay, so it's a sucky picture... but this adorable black bear kept pacing around this door - like, this is obviously a door someone comes through with food or other interesting stuff. and finally the bear just got bored and tired of waiting and sat down. very cute, but very hard to get a decent angle on - this is taken through the protective fence several feet above the bear enclosure.

omg wolf!

we waited for the wolf to appear around its enclosure, and no wolf. so we walk off to whatever's next. and when we turn around, there's a wolf! walking right towards us! yay!

wolf dozing

awwwwww

kittens!

bobcats are cute

otter

you know, an otter. don't you want one?

no, she didn't?

oh, yes she did. student troupe doing a missy elliott number at pura show. they were all blonde and mostly wee. lovely people, poor choreography choices.

whirling dervish?

in pink, too! this woman struck me as interesting if nothing else.

delerium dance

very pretty finish & costumes from a troupe even newer than ours

pretty dancer

one of baraka mundi's students; she just had a lovely quality to her dance & is flat-out beautiful too

pretty drummers

not that you can see them.

pretty costume

the crazy brothers

i'm sure this number is the reason i dreamt later about drawing a card in Quelf that ordered you to wrap your head in a towel and, whenever looked at, say "this is a racist stereotype".

more cute drummer, plus rather pretty solo

some of baraka mundi

swing fusion!

i want to marry this dance troupe. they're from lawrenceville, georgia, too! it's a tiny place! also, they include a very small amount of actual diversity. yay, them!

um, fosse fusion?

this piece was fun - not exactly bellydance, but good good times.

carolena

she dances pretty :)

meg & carolena

pretty squared. if only i were a slightly better photographer.