This is a post that is being preemptively created before I even check to see if there is a meme. I have family members who have an interest in metal work and I was taking a picture of the window treatment. Our office space was designed as a formal dining room. There are only two windows in the place with this iron work.

Points of interest in the picture include my neighbors Alpha Romeo (I’m only slightly jealous), the aviary on my other neighbor’s roof (he dumps the poop over the side into the vacant lot) and the giant fennel plants in the vacant lot (bird poop will do that). If anybody wants to link up to me with a post about their view, that would be cool

My family is trying to reduce our plastic waste. I took this picture for plasticless.com, but it looks so good that I thought I would post it here as well.

When we we walking towards the market square this morning, we yielded the narrow sidewalk to a line of tourists. It was a bit surreal to see seven retirement aged people in a row all eating bananas and walking in lockstep.

It’s carnival week here and it is not uncommon to see medium sized groups of young boys in gorilla masks behaving badly. The anonymity makes it a bit scary even for a tough guy like me. I had to smile when I was driving back to my neighborhood and saw a gorilla tagging along with his mom, thus blowing his cover.

One of the individuals in this picture did not want to participate at all. The other one was conflicted, but felt that there was a social obligation.