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building security

Another randomly-spotted street scene somewhere in Palermo. Between the metal bars across the windows and the tenacious stand of ivy, the place seems pretty secure.

Palermo, Sicily
photographed 8.29.2022

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.

piñata (fireball and advil)

There was a piñata for the little kids, a piñata for the teenagers, and a piñata for the grownups. Ours had Fireball, Tito’s Vodka, and Advil.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.24.2023

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

like a swim-up bar, only with quesadillas

Those kids from yesterday’s photo moved on to having poolside quesadillas. Later, a soggy half-eaten quesadilla was plucked off the pool deck and thrown away. No one ever even missed it. As far as we know.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 6.24.2023