Today is the day of zoom meetings, I’ll be in meetings from basically 11:30am to 5pm — working from home, I have attended more meetings in three months than I have actually had meetings at the office in the last three years! Ha!
It was another cool(ish) morning and I was taken off guard when Keely put her nose eastward and dragged me up 7th Ave. to Thomasville Rd. This is sometimes the way we start for her short before-dinner walk in the late afternoon but almost never how we go for the morning walk, and I think I was just so surprised at this show of willfulness that I simply followed along!
We turned south on Thomasville Rd. — again, Keely in the lead! — and then, even more surprisingly, she headed east again on 6th Ave. I simply have no idea what was going on in that doggo’s head but she took us up 6th Ave. about halfway to Magnolia before I had to turn us over to 7th Ave and head home.
Was she “making a break for it” or simply curious? I have only a few times walked her down 6th, although I used to walk it a lot before I got her, going all the way up to Magnolia and back (it was a 45+ min. hike, usually, which isn’t long but a little much for Keely). But it was a nice change of scenery for both of us, and I got to see how some people have altered their houses/lawns.
One interesting point is the photo for today: this low-relief over-door sculpture on the old building at the corner of Thomasville and 6th that is getting renovated along with the old hotel behind it. (I had to tip-toe and hold my phone over the chain link fence to get this, btw!)
I have never seen it before so I suspect that it was previously hidden behind some decorative elements added later? Or I’m just oblivious!
I have no idea what this vaguely “socialist propaganda” style of art is supposed to be telling me, and part of me wonders if the building used to be a bank. Seems like the unintentionally-ironic populist marketing efforts banks used to attempt when I was a girl (no really, they tried).
Interesting, in any case. I wonder if they will keep it? I wonder how I can research it. Might post it on FB to see if any moots who have been in town longer than I have recognize it.