My happy time

 Walking down a sidewalk in Hyde Park.

Missing Pieces

Saw these on the ground the other day during a walk. Too bad for the puzzle solvers. 

 

Come play with me!

 This cat was ready for some affection when we walked by its house the other day. 

Walk the walk, love the mural

 

We took a nice walk in Clarksville today. Here you see my backside in a photo taken by my wife, Linda Ball. The mural on the side of Nau's Drugstore says, "Love is the question, love is the answer." Hard to argue. 

Express yourself! Have at it!

We saw this nice box of chalk on an east Austin sidewalk the other day -- just waiting for people of any age to make their thoughts known. 
 

One Hopes So

It's hard to see it now.

They're baaaack!

Scooters are starting to be used again and their riders just throw them down, blocking sidewalks.

Too narrow

Here's FFP walking on a too narrow part of the near South Lamar sidewalk.

No Sidewalks

The east side of near South Lamar. In parts, there are bad sidewalks. Here, none. That's my husband treading along. He's been nursing an ankle injury and we haven't been walking a lot. I miss it. This was taken in November. I think I'll post more pictures of him walking with me at a respectful distance. (Kidding, I just fall behind while talking pictures.)

Scooter on the sidewalk.

A person in a wheelchair would not be happy about this. These things can be a real nuisance.

Typical Austin

There's a story here. For years, a scraggly little piece of scrub brush poked up from this cut in the sidewalk on Fourth Street. No doubt, they had to go to extra expense to carve this semi-circle in the sidewalk instead of just cutting the thing down.

Destinations

I think that this street art is to warn people the dumping liquids here will lead to pollution of the creek system.

Sidewalk Art

This was neatly drawn in the sidewalk on the Johnson Creek Trail. I doubt it's an indicator that any is growing around there, probably just a bit of art or wishful thinking.

Remains of the Day

The morning after Austin's Gay Pride Parade found the sidewalk near our building strewn with fragments of colored balloons lost to puncture the night before. (Perhaps from lit cigarettes?!)

Pedestrian friendly, as always.

After the hurricane last month, walking on some downtown sidewalks was a bit of a problem.

Hot dogs! Not funny!

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This is a good reminder on the sidewalk in a nearby neighborhood.

Sidewalks!

By the time you see this entry the sidewalk being poured here will be in place. I hope. This is looking straight down on the street below us.

A great pair

A famous pair of singers are immortalized in West Austin.

Oh, yeah, that ADA thing

On this street leading to the newly opened Walter Seaholm Drive there were no curb cuts for the sidewalk. Our friend Jackie took this picture as they worked on correcting this. If I'm not mistaken this street was recently done when the apartments nearby went up, but I don't suppose doing things right the first time was a priority.Our friend who uses a wheelchair will find the trip up to Third Street much less harrowing now.

The whirling cosmos

Sometimes sidewalk art does look nice, though it's a pain to clean it up.