The Grand Tour

The skull is the smiley face

of the 21st Century

mascot of our times

Where do all the hippies meet?

Grand Street

Grand Street

Scouting out last week's movie experience

a few days earlier

I toured my favorite end of the estuary

then examined Grand avenue

the first foreshadows of Fall seemed to fall

across the sunlight-saturated streetscape

Lake Merritt

bird sanctuary

 seen from boat landing

Where alabaster egrets

nest in the trees,

the perpetual motion

of life goes on

Love the out-of-doors

beware of the bees

trapped in windows

Exudation

 of amber

Onward,

Boulevardiers

Nearly the season of the skull

Merchants are

ahead of the game

The Day of the Dead

overshadows

even all hallowed

Hallowe'en

Who still dares to fly

seditious symbols

in a time of never-ending

war?

A reliquary of anachronism

an independent bookstore

Strike up the band

get with the program
sugar-coat your skull

Boot and Shoe Service

a trendy not inexpensive café,

ironically retaining the name

of a former working class

establishment

Libertines need

spectacles

it seems

There's a frame shop

Wait

what does it say?

Well,

I never...
No wonder the guy
in the white T-shirt
looks so lonely

All because of this

tweeting anus

If that's really

the way you

feel about it 

What about us

a hip cat?

Historic friend

of the pussy?

He just don't know

wrong from right

just like an alley cat

Signs of a classy place

Animal Science

 

Here's the real alley

next to the Alley

Ultimate cool

Last laugh's

on us

I am not your

beagle

Build a wall

GOP animal

No gratuitous

fondling

allowed

Survival
of the leanest


 oblique


stones in my
pass way

Gang's all here

right across from

Walden Pond

The same artist

has similar work

on Don Joyce's old

Negativland pad,

It's now over-muraled and

Don's gone to his reward

two years ago

Perhaps a coffee
for old time's sake

This sign's so old

It has the alphabet

from the Hobbit

paperback cover

Fifty years

of the psychedelic blues


Whether you are black
or you are white
let's all unite


           Hugh Mundell

August 2017