Plenty of time for garden stuff later. I did the alley as a series of black&white/grayscale shots and color pics. First I will put up all of the non-color pics, and then I will put up all of the color shots. At ten per day this will take me into July. By that time the patio garden should be the usual jungle and I can spend some time there. As usual, file sizes have been reduced significantly. Full size pics are always archived on removable media.
So this is the "locator". Obviously 34th Street or nearby.
We are entering the alley. Looks like something out of a David Lynch movie.
I can already see that it's going to be hard to keep track of things.
And this is our first real "sight". Soon the "sights" will be coming thick and fast!
While the God Emperor (sarcasm) continues to deteriorate and malfunction in full FUBAR mode, let us examine this microcosm of plastic body parts and panels and small businesses, all hidden away where almost no one would look. Except for me, of course. And some pics from the patio garden as it develops anew in 2020. Then the latest alley, in which I tried something different. So much to do.
Good old funky walls.
Good old funky businesses, full of honest sweat and grease and metal shavings.
This gives a clue to location.
This is also a clue. Now, the garden, as it appeared several weeks ago.
We'll still be in the garden next time because I've got more work to do on the new batch of pics.
Yes, plastic parts in the wilderness, but well within the city limits-- an out-of-the-way location that is NOT out in the boonies.
It is kind of semi-industrial. These parts of town are always interesting.
These junkyard dogs seemed to be more bark than bite. They seemed mostly curious and maybe hoping for a treat.
Wild areas can be found within the city, if you know where to look. And I don't mean the Depot District. Not that kind of wild. We'll finish this area next time and move on to the alley I examined recently.
That new place is going to be a land of auto body panels, as you will see.
I guess the current location is kind of a land of wrecked cars-- and other junk and trash.
I didn't do a mirror image flip with the pic above-- I let a reflection in a glass panel do that for me.
And above a superposition of mirrored outside stuff and debris behind the glass.
So the next time I'm in this area I'll be examining the Stubb's memorial. But I don't know when that will be. Meanwhile, in the pic below from the next photo stop, you can see why it is The Land of Body Panels--
They are all over the place. This dumpster is stuffed. There are many more scattered about. More from this location next time.
But this morning I finally relocated the alley where my late wife and I did test pics with the Nikon. That was back in 2013. Maybe even 2012. I've wanted to go there again. But never got around to it and forgot where it was. This morning I stumbled onto it and took MANY photos and I plan to get as much out of those pics as I can. There were some people loading stuff from their SUVs into one of the stores along this alley, through a back door. So I had to explain what I was doing there. I'm sure they decided I was a harmless goofball. And I felt a bit safer. But it will take time to process those pics. Meanwhile I have not finished with the pics from last weekend.
I took a few pics to "locate"-- I was not far from Grace Campus, for the homeless.
The inevitable cast away furniture.
Fair Park coliseum in the distance. Will there be a fair this year? Covid-19 is NOT going away, despite what the "president" says.
Weeds and trash and wrecked cars-- that much is normal. More of this next time, then some shifts in location.
So this is the "locator". Obviously 34th Street or nearby.
We are entering the alley. Looks like something out of a David Lynch movie. 
I can already see that it's going to be hard to keep track of things.
And this is our first real "sight". Soon the "sights" will be coming thick and fast!
