Celebrate Halloween

It's Halloween. And here's a detail from the window of Gail Chovan's brilliant Blackmail Boutique on South Congress. The entire window is done up for a tea party of spooks. The old china is decorated with spooky images and the tea cups allow you to pick your poison. The cake with skulls for roses is hilarious.

Name That Halloween Tale

Whoa! It's almost Halloween. At this house in South Austin they are obviously re-enacting some scary Halloween tale about, hum, a pregnant girl on her wedding day? You tell me, kids, I'm not much into horror movies.

Street art

Someone went to a lot of trouble making this street sign in South Austin look fancy.

Lots of locks

We were walking by a historic condo building in downtown Austin the other day and saw all these locks on a fence. Realtors can use them to open up condos for sale.

Abandoned Shoes

You really can't make this stuff up. Yet another pair of abandoned shoes. These may have a broken strap. Still...why not use a nearby trash can?

Open To Interpretation

Often I'm not sure about the interpretation of some graffiti. This Jesus-like fellow is either doing a rap move, a blessing or a Hook 'Em Horns (UT's hand signal). And he has that flowery Hawaiian-style shirt. Oh, well. You decide.

Preservation

There was an old apartment building at this location on Guadalupe near 18th Street. It's been razed with the doorway surround restored on the new roomy sidewalk. Interesting landmark!