Window with decals with photos of southwest buttes and scrub with 2 drones flying above. Lettering above the drones "NATIONAL, SECURITY, REIMAGINED"

view from sidewalk of fence with three banners, furthest is a large cactus, next is one big horn form a longhorn, and the closest has 2 drones in the upper right with lettering in the center "TECTONIC DEFENSE SUMMIT" Behind the fence in center of frame is the top of a rocket and its pointed nose cone. in the background are the tops of Austin, TX downtown towers with large dark clouds above.

SxSW starts this week. The first big installment I see going up is not movies or music I am looking for.

Electric 13 TATTOO and Liberty bar neon signs lit on buildings. Black and white image.

A view of the east 6th and comal street intersection with the Cisco’s restaurant on the upper left of frame with its neon signs lit. Image is black and white.

A low light scene of inside a restaurant on the left highlighting photos on its walls. A woman walking a dog is on the right. Image is black and white

Early morning scene of lit signs and window displays for the Wild About Music store on Congress Avenue. Image is black and white.

Cool, cloudy, dark start to my Sunday morning walk around Austin, Texas.

I am also prone to playing the same song performed by different bands for long stretches.

Finishing out the evening watching this great performance and wondering what is next for this awful government .

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

And now even closer to home we have Bruce Springsteen. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

"Minnesota" - Marsh Family adaptation of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)" YouTube video by Marsh Family

Not been on much do to the state of the USA. I have followed the Marsh Family since the pandemic and recently they have been making great videos addressing current issues. The video they posted last night is amazing and it hits me so hard.
Please watch, share, and support youtu.be/BRHxXHZmVAM?...

Maybe some people are using TP to wrap their plants or pipes? :)

The top half of the photo is the side of a one story building painted yellow and covered with large format graffiti with words like “orgies” “CLUBR” and “BACON”. On each side of the building are utility poles and power lines. A large tree is also at left of building. The bottom half of the photo is the entire top scene reflecting in a large water puddle.

The side of building painted black with three windows at top. On the bottom floor of the building are two large color portrait prints wheat pasted up.

A large window with a sign on the inside lower right that says “NO SOLICITING”. On the left two thirds of the photo is round wheat paste on the outside of a face with three views in one sphere.

A large textured surface with light blue paint flaking throughout with splotches of rust.

My walk around east 12th street continues on this nice morning.

Side corner view of a building. On the left are two businesses on front side of building, one has a large sign “COFFEE” and on the corner is a barber pole. On the right side of the building is a large mural with 4 scenes, a barber shop scene with a couple customers and barber, a black man and woman dressed up with fancy hats, a church, and a baseball player pitching. Caption for the mural “An East Austin Story “

A close up view of the mural of the first two sections of the mural from the first photograph. This view has the barbershop scene and the man and woman in fancy dress with nice hats.

A view of a diner / coffee shop small table with a cappuccino with a latte art heart on the lower left. A small group of yellow and pink flowers behind the coffee and then a chrome napkin holder behind reflecting the flowers. On the right side is. A menu on the table and a glimpse of ta chair.

A jar of pink and yellow flowers in front of a chrome napkin holder which is in front of a green window sill with white and black curtains above.

Starting out a morning walk on East 12th Street this wet and warm morning.

A side view of a brew pub from the sidewalk. A wooden fence with holiday garland is at lower frame. On the left side of frame is a painted sign that says “BEER HERE” and on the right of frame is a neon sign at top of metal pole that reads “Zuckerberg Brewing Co.”

A puddle on the side of asphalt street with many wet fall colored leaves. A large flat wrinkled piece of aluminium foil covers most of the right side of the frame

A wet asphalt street has a few wet falll colored leaves with a wet flattened plastic grocery bag in center of frame.

Bottom third of the frame is a wooden table. Upper two thirds of the frame is a large metal toy semi truck and trailer with labeling of “CATTLE HAULER”. On right of frame in front of trailer is a grey coffee mug with a few coffee beans scattered in front of it

Cool blustery overcast day for my Sunday morning walk around Austin, Texas. A bit of puddles and leaves scattered about. Less people than normal out. A good time to listen to music and be happy for warm clothing and coffee houses.

Get well soon! Ease back into that freezer. I don’t know if I could ever move back to western cold New York weather. Though, during Austin’s furnace season I get tempted to move back for summers.

Sorry to hear. I hope you mend quickly and are out and about.

Hmm, sounds good, I will have to look again. I went by many times and saw the outlines and some color fill in. I was thinking there would be more.

I am sad that one was never finished. It was such a great start.

Part of a large colorful mural with a wheat paste of face on an inset fire door.

A large blue dumpster on a cracked asphalt lot. There is a large wheat paste of a head and hair of a drag queen on the entire right side of the dumpster. The head has yellow hair, blue eyeliner and dark red lips.

White washed plywood with a black marker drawing of three strong lines that show mid body legs and butt in semi profile. There is a large speech bubble emanating from the butt that reads “hi.”

A closeup of a black top road with a single serving condiment package on the right of frame. The package is somewhat wrinkled on its right side and on the left it has opened with a large semi wet spot coming out of its left side. The wet spot is dark and blends in to the blacktop.

Beautiful autumn weather for my Sunday morning walk around Austin, Texas. Today I present some of what the streets had on offer.

A photo of the back of a white Toyota parked on a leafy street that is completely covered in bumper stickers, many expressing queer-positive and leftist messages, along with stickers of cartoon animals, and the personalized license plate CATBOI.

A photo of a white Toyota's front hood, showing two bumper stickers: one with a rainbow gradient background and the text "MOVE IM GAY" in mirror image for the benefit of drivers ahead, and one with a cartoon frog driving a red car and the text "BEEP BEEP BITCH." The personalized license plate says CATBOI.

A photo of two plastic white and pink cat ears attached to the top of a white car with buildings and trees with fall foliage visible in the background behind it.

A photo of the side rear of a white Toyota covered in anime, gaming, and pop culture stickers. The collection includes text-based decals like "HELLFIRE CLUB," "I'M NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS, I'M WORSE," "I HEART QUEER COMICS," and "CATBOY ENTHUSIAST."

I love you, CATBOI.

That waffle looks delicious.

Standing at a crosswalk with the sun at my back. My shadow spans the white rectangles of the crosswalk at bottom half of frame. At top half of frame is part of the downtown skyline reflecting morning sunlight through a bit of fog.

The bottom half of the legs of blue jeans that have been cut off rest on the pavement of the street as if the person was walking and the cutoffs just fell off.

A strange polygonal shape of light gray paint in the middle of a gray painted wall. Government’s attempt to 1984 real art.

A weathered wheat pasted up door. A closeup near the locked up center with a padlock showing on bottom right. A painting of a head on the right side. The head is all red with a bunch of blue overlayed on the left of the head.

Coolest start to the Sunday morning walk this fall. I forgot to get up a bit earlier due to the time change and missed the full darkness. There is the faintest bit of fog.

Corner view of gas station in the morning darkness with a lit sign and bright security light. The top of frame is the station and the bottom of frame is the station’s reflection in a puddle.

A colorful Mexican restaurant lit through a large window. There is a table and chairs in the window light on the bottom center of frame.

An early morning dark scene with a bit of blue light starting in the sky. There is a gas station at left and a coffee and bicycle shop to the right. The shops are lit by business lighting. There is a truck parked in front to the left. You can see a couple people working in the coffee shop.

A side view of the Mr Natural restaurant at the top in the morning darkness. The restaurant and street signs are reflected in a large puddle at the bottom of frame.

Cool clean and wet start to my Sunday morning walk around Austin, Texas. I love the early morning when it is quiet and businesses are preparing to open and great the groggy masses.

2025/10/18 No Kings. A cutout of a smiling woman wearing a large sunhat and sunglasses, who is holding a large handmade sign. The sign is in three sections. Section 1 at top "I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE TO SAY THIS!", section 2 in middle "NO KINGS NO Fascism NO Pedos" and bottom section "I Stand with the FROGS" and three green frogs drawn. The background of the image are swaths of color star bursting out from the center. Surrounding the cutout of the woman are hand drawn frogs in the style that were drawn on the sign.

Working through last week's No Kings rally.

Image titled "Outstanding in Austin"

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol. 4 people holding up signs. "NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL" "PISS ON ICE" "NO TYRANTS" "LIBERTY DOES NOT BOW TO TYRANTS"

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol. Two smiling women protesters holding two signs and a third at their feet. "DUMP Trump" "IF THEY ONLY HAD A HEART Or Morals, Or Empathy, Or a Clue" "SO BAD EVEN INTROVERTS ARE HERE"

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol. Two protesters holding up signs. "The King and his fools." "NO KINGS"

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol.

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol. Woman holds sign that reads "DONT FUCK FASCISTS THATS GROSS"

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol. A woman holds a hand drawn sign on piece of cardboard that reads "NO KINGS" and the drawing of orange man wearing a Burger King Crown.

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol. A man holds a cardboard sign hand panted with the Epstein Birthday Card Letter with big words around it that read "I Never Wrote A Picture". A woman holds a handprinted cardboard sign that reads "THEY WANT YOU to keep DOOM SCROLLING"

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol. Two woman hold very large black board signs with colorful cutout lettering. One reads "UNPAID PROTESTER I HATE TRUMP FOR FREE!" the other reads "NO F.CKIN RACISTS NAZIS MAGAS FASCIST"

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol.

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol. A woman holds up a handwritten sign with "THE ONLY THING ICE IS PROTECTING ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES"

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol. Many people with signs and USA flags with capitol in the background. One sign reads "Democracy NOT Monarchy"

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol. Many people with signs and man in the middle of yelling.

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol. Many people with signs. One older woman has a printed sign with a picture of an older woman with a purple sweater with printing "I AM AUNT TIFA" and an 'NPR' tote bag over her shoulder.

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. Procession on Congress Avenue South of the Capitol.

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. On the State Of Texas Capitol grounds. Woman with a No Kings, No Fascism, No Pedos sign.

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. On the State Of Texas Capitol grounds. A woman stands with a sign with a bird in the center and the words "GRCKLE GOT NO KING"

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. On the State Of Texas Capitol grounds. Two women. One has a white dress that she has black markered from top to bottom with the words "NO KINGS POWER BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE" It also has to black crowns with red banned circles. The other woman has a shirt with "REFUGEES ALWAYS WELCOME"

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas. On the State Of Texas Capitol grounds. A woman stands with the capitol in the background. She is wearing a covid mask with large lettering reading "VOTE". She holds a handwritten sign with "NO KINGS IN AMERICA SINCE 1776"

No Kings Protest - 2025/10 Austin, Texas.

Monuments in a cemetery with overlapping graffiti, people, and other images fading through.

A memory photo combined from multiple photos I have taken over the years from 4 different cities around the world.

The text from the AI generated news story for the image in this post.

A composite of a sign with a grackle with neon lighting with the word 'GRACKLE', an airstream trailer with a couple street art overlays, a lit street light and an old yellow pickup truck. The backdrop is a large Rocky Mountain and all the other parts sit atop a green grass lawn.

This is an old image I created a few years ago. I have been playing with AI to describe images. The version I have been using is fairly good at 'seeing' the image and getting most details. But the stories it writes are not very good. Some of the elements it comes up with make me laugh.

A grey utility box with large square black and white wheat paste on it. The image has a large bald eagle in profile perched on a dead looking man (a face like dia de los muertos skull) with big hair combed in front, a large stomach and a suit with a long tie off to the side. The eagle is pulling the left eye out of the man's skull.

From summer vacation in Philadelphia.

An assemblage of 4 of my photos. The background scene is of Palm park playground with the downtown skyline with a bunch of multi-color 8 sided dice falling down in front. There is also a mechanical armadillo in the lower left of frame on the side of the playground. There is lettering from a newspaper over the entire image.

Tonight was only a 20 minute wind down before bedtime. This is made up of 4 of my images from around Austin, TX all taken with the same camera over the last couple weeks.

A memory photo composition of 5 images. The main image is of a subway car. A blue ghost cartoon drawing street art with 'STAY SAFE' written across the eyes is positioned on the orange subway car seats.. Another street art sticker with "Who Would Jesus Deport?" is on a wall of the car. A diffuse city view is throughout the image.

Tonight's 1 hour wind down. I mixed and matched 5 photos I have taken into one new image.