Tuesday, December 01, 2020
Mural on a dead-end street
Friday, November 27, 2020
"Love Is Essential"
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Arroyo Chico Community Mural
The Arroyo Chico Community Mural (named "FLOW") was painted by Porter McDonald on a wall on the west side of the Mission Church's parking lot. The parking lot is enclosed by a chain link fence that is only open during services. The photos were taken on May 18 and Sept. 13, 2020.
Here is a link to Porter's comments about the mural: Arroyo Chico Stories
Friday, November 20, 2020
Many murals at Govinda's
(By the way, I really enjoy Thanksgiving there. It's vegetarian, of course. And the fun part is that they've had a live turkey walking around the grounds.) I stuffed my face (and took photos) on November 4th.
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Vote more
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Kind hospital
I was there on September 23rd.
Monday, November 16, 2020
Vote
Found Nov. 13, 2020 on the south wall of Yosi's Flower Shop on 4833 S. 12th Avenue.
The Spanish translates to English as "Together With Biden and Harris". I realize that some of you will like the message and some won't. If you want to make a comment, please keep it civil.
Artist not known |
Click on the photo for a larger and sharper image.
Update (November 16, 2020): Jerry Peek found a similar mural today at 4426 S. 6th Avenue that doesn't mention Kamala Harris:
Artist not known |
Friday, November 13, 2020
Loft Cinema (Murals being made, part 57)
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Ignacio Garcia honors a fallen soldier
Gregory was a Deserter to the Military Had gone missing days before getting out of the Army. So when Soldier Vanessa Guillén went missing and searches began for her , his body was found Aug. 2019 . Buried close to where later Vanessas body was also found. Vanessas story was everywhere in the media , news and getting so much attention his mother was feeling a little desperate and forgotten. So a member of a group called “Voices of the voice less” (Andrea Diaz) asked we do a mural for his mother. For days and weeks they looked for a wall and no luck so I knew I was miles away but I decided to offer our wall for it and that’s how it all started. Gathering the funds for it wasn’t easy either but we made it happened and Ignacio the artist also donated some of his time since the go fund never reached its goal. Below is a little copied piece of Gregorys obituary. We are military parents and have a active duty that’s currently deployed so fully feel for Military.
“During his time in the military he went from Ft. Leonard Wood to Korea. After serving in Korea he was assigned to Ft. Hood. He then served in Kuwait and then returned to his base in Ft. Hood where he lived until his death. He received the following awards while serving in the United States Armed Forces; National service medal, Global war terrorism expeditionary medal, Global war on terrorism service medal, uwait Defense service medal, Army service ribbon, Overseas service ribbon, Army achievement medal 2nd award, Army good conduct medal, Certificate of achievement 2nd award, and Driver mechanic badge.”
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He went from awol, to deserter , and when his remains were found they had such a hard time taking that off his record. He was obviously murdered and never went awol. His family fought for his honors until they made it right. He finally had a funeral almost a year later and was buried with all his honors.
This video and the photos below it show Ignacio painting.
Friday, November 06, 2020
MotoSonora
Thursday, November 05, 2020
Sahuarita Chalk Art Adventure THIS WEEKEND (plus more...)
Sahuarita isn't quite Tucson, but SAACA's chalk art mural festivals are worth the trip. If you haven't seen them, here are a few entries from this blog:
- Park Place Chalk Art Festival revisited (April 19, 2012)
- Park Place Chalk Art Festival, part 1 of 3 (April 10, 2013. Links near the end to parts 2 and 3.)
- Park Place Chalk Art Festival 2016 (April 11, 2016)
Tuesday, November 03, 2020
State Farm colors
Friday, October 30, 2020
Howdy from Tuxon
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Bookstore Southwest
I stopped by on May 10th.