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squid-man emerges from the shadows

We’d seen (and enjoyed)(and photographed) this market during the day. And then we got sage advice from Allison Scola*, who told us we needed to see it at night, too.

She was right: the daytime vendors of produce, fish, housewares, clothes, and everything you’d need gave way to outdoor cafes, lots of Aperol, interesting lighting, and of course, this graffiti person

Mercato della Vuccciria
Palermo, Sicily
photographed 8.31.2023

*If you are thinking about going to Sicily – and you really DO need to think about it – get in touch with Allison at Experience Sicily. Tell her I sent you**

**This is one of very, very few times dropping my name might work to your benefit. You should take advantage of it.

uneven usage

It makes me happy to know that more people scrape their bumpers up against that one marked space on the right than they do the other one.

Slaton, Texas
photographed 6.23.2023

fancy lighting

That’s a fancy light fixture they’ve got inside there. I wonder why.

Slaton, Texas
photographed 6.23.2023

 

church

Thank you, sign, for stating the obvious.

Slaton, Texas
photographed 6.23.2023

citrus

Maybe you knew that part of Route 66 went through Chinatown in Los Angeles. I did not know that until fairly recently.

But look! Here’s a truck of citrus!

Chinatown
Los Angeles, California
photographed 6.3.2023