New Mix

God's Crane.

We went to a different part of Ocean Beach where Pacheco St. meets The Great Highway.

Not crowded.

This figure seems to have dropped in from the Ming Dynasty.

That's him in the center.

A week and a half ago I made a lightning visit to Los Angeles. I went out to the desert to visit some friends who have a house in Yucca Valley, which is two and a half hours outside of LA. The sky was very nice.

Their backyard.

 Looking over their house towards some mountains.

 More sky.

 The front yard.

September 17 2015

It's been a month since my last confession - I mean blog post! Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. All the following photos were shot on a sunny September 17.

Beautiful eye beam.

The death of Adobe Books was strongly felt by some longtime residents of the Mission. Although the overall design of the mural is not wonderful, I love the precise detail of the book covers, including "You Can't Win" by Jack Black (the thief not the actor). It's one of the bureau's favorite books. Feel free to zoom in.

Right next to that mural is, I assume, a comment on the situation.

All these murals are on Clarion Alley where murals get painted on top of murals. Here are some more new ones.

Wow.

See?

Homage to Zap Comix. The original cover was by the late Spain Rodriguez.

This corner shows the architectural history of the Mission.

On the left, two Queen Anne houses with store fronts on the ground floor. In the middle a commercial building from the 20s? On the right, a brand new apartment building. The commercial building burned a few months ago, driving out the inhabitants. It seems unlikely that it will be rebuilt.

Here's a mural not on Clarion Alley.

Finally, a bit of feral art.