Odd Sights Here and There

I take a lot of pictures. That’s the problem with the digital age. You’re never far from a cheap camera and the urge to document reality.

Car2Go recently upgraded their fleet. And they used a parking lot near my work as a staging area.

So many tiny cars.

The best thing about this lost dog is the fliers came with their own translations.

Perro Perdido sounds so much more poetic than the English translation.

This dispenser was seen in a motel in College Station.

Presumably the single-purpose spoons are only at the upscale motels.

Do you ever worry that you’re the core demographic for public transportation advertising?

I ask myself all the time, shouldn’t there be more drivethrough churches? You know, like this one at the end of 12th near Airport.

At the time I took this photo I was disappointed to discover that I didn’t have enough change for the vending machines.

I’m sure the money would have gone to a good cause.

In front of the Walmart at MoPac and Ben White I found this roadkill. But this wasn’t just any ordinary dead animal, this was a porcupine.

I didn’t even know there were porcupines in Texas. The last time I saw one of these I was in the wilderness of Minnesota.

Bubbles. In a lawn. In South Austin.

Actually, that’s not so unusual.

A framing shop in Hyde Park as this fanciful fishing lure in its window.

In a courtyard behind an art gallery in Wimberley, there are velociraptors.

You freeze, hoping the lawn art’s visual acuity is based on motion, but it’s not…