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Did some alley walkin’ today. Found some gems.

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Found this in my alley.

Permanently mounted sign, fresh poop. ?

Yes, I am aware this is a terrible photo and you can’t see a thing. But let me tell you a little story about that brown blob in the bottom there.

A little over a year ago I was out “helping” a friend with an oil change in the alley, and the gal started bleeding all over the place, the truck not the friend, oil, not blood, so I dashed inside and grabbed a rag ..rags in my house are usually shirts I’ve ruined, usually within the first 3 wearings, this one I had spilled bleach on, and we sopped up the black gold and like good environmentally conscious people threw it in the dumpster.

This morning on a walk in an alley one block away, an alley I cruise every week, there was my shirt, laying in the middle of the road. My same brown, Old Navy, 3/4 sleeve with the tell tale bleach stains, WITH an oil funnel sitting on top.

One year later.

Dumpster Diving Hoarders or Major Time Warp? You decide.

So..the neighborhood is feeling a little different to me the last few weeks, in a sad way, and things seem to be going missing lately too. Art work in the alley, good graffiti, friendships, Crash the cat..and even Carl. Remember Carl? Carl who “loves you”. Poor guy must have gotten soggy in the rain or something. Maybe it’s just the weather change, it has been one full year now..fall is here and winter is coming….but I don’t like things being missing.

Been awhile since I’ve spotted any alley artwork. Luckily someone got their show up for first Friday. Wine & cheese will probably not be served.

iPhone images..sorry about the quality.

Tag only lasted a day or so..but it was cool while it lasted. This building is so great. Can’t you picture it? Living space or design studios up top, popshop retail space down below it, restaurant/coffee shop/hang out area to the left of it with the rollup door and spilling out onto the sidewalk patio area..workshop, studios, creative space to the left of that..of which you can’t see all of the space in this photo..put a viewing lounge on the top floor roof with solar panel shade structures..and then a vegetable garden on the other two roofs, would be SO SWEET. Who wants to be my investor?