Burn some calories around a mural-covered home

If you're having a big meal tomorrow (Thanksgiving), think about taking a mural-hunting and calorie-burning walk around the Barrio Viejo (just south of downtown) this holiday weekend. See our mural map at map.tucsonmurals.org.

Even if you don't take a walk, park somewhere around the corner of Kennedy Street and Rubio Alley (a.k.a. Rubio Avenue). Here's the home along the alley; it's lined with murals and there are more in the yard:

Our blog has posted this home twice before: On October 06, 2017 in Artistic gift to neighbors and passersby and October 13, 2017 in More of Kristin's gift. Here's the alley in the 10/13/17 post. The chimney didn't have its Danny Martin mural yet:

The back yard has also changed, as we'll see soon.

Danny Martin painted several murals around the home. He painted the chimney sometime in the seven years after our last post:

Next (south) along the wall is this mural of the Virgen de Guadalupe, painted by Raechel Running:

Artist and poet Jim Harrison, created by a great long time friend from Flagstaff, Jaybyrd Willison:

Walking a bit more toward the back the alled, just past the home's wall along the alley, look right to see this Danny Martin mural. It's one of (at least) four around the home:

Behind the house is this shed:

It was hard to snap photos through the fence. Here's the east side with a bit of fence at the lower left:

I used my photo editor to straighten the Danny Martin mural:

I don't know which came first, but that mural looks identical to the one Danny painted at the Downtown Clifton. Our June 18, 2015 post Welcome to the Downtown Clifton… shows it. (Click there to see it.)

I forgot to check the back of the shed! Our post More of Kristin's gift shows it in 2017.

Another Danny Martin mural is on the Little Free Library in front of this amazing home. You can see it in our October 28, 2024 post Jackalope wrapped in lights.