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| This mural, located in an alleyway leading to a parking lot (with dumpsters), is one of my favorites! |
Now that I've been back home for a few weeks, it's time to post some photos of the street scenes of our rather colorful town. I have no idea if the murals and other street decorations here in Ann Arbor are unusually numerous, but they definitely make it a lot of fun to walk around, especially downtown. The murals I've included today are in the campus area near Liberty and State Street in Ann Arbor.
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Between commercial buildings on Liberty Street, these walls have slowly been filled with graffiti. People are always there
taking photos -- for example, this photographer with a whole wagon-load of equipment! |
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| Decorated window of a high-tech company. Note that this photo is also a selfie! |
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| Many local utility boxes are creatively decorated. This one is on State Street. |
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Farther from home: the trash barrels at Ford Lake in Ypsilanti
are amusingly decorated with stencils of little bees. |
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| Our bird walk at Ford Lake was a success: Len took this photo of a small falcon called a merlin that was stretching its claws. |
I'll be sharing this post with
Colorful World's mural collections when the blog comes back online (it’s on vacation now). Last month, I posted photos of the most famous of the Ann Arbor murals, also in the same area of town:
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| Five authors: Woody Allen, Edgar Allan Poe, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, and Anaïs Nin. (Blog post here) |
Very cool murals! And I love the falcon. I rarely click fast enough to catch the birds before they fly off.
ReplyDeleteMary (CactusCatz.com)
I really do like the giant ants !
ReplyDeleteand congratulations for the falcon's picture
...a fabulous collection. The first one reminds me of the song, 'the ants come walking one by one.'
ReplyDeleteOhhhh ants, bad (or in retrospect rather funny) memories.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that Hermann Hesse made it on the wall.
A great collection of murals. I like the ants, and the hot air balloons. I could happily spend time wandering around the area.
ReplyDeleteCreepy ants on the wall!
ReplyDeleteGreat murals and a nice way to update otherwise gloomy parts of town.
ReplyDeleteI commented on one of the other participants in Mural Monday, and wanted to add this thought here as well:
ReplyDeleteI've been distinguishing in my mind between a mural and a graffiti. Murals, I thought, were painted with the permission and often with the sponsorship of the owner of the space, and were usually pretty ambitious and well-thought-out. Graffiti are painted on any wall the "artist" chooses, often with haste and with less skill : though there are some pretty skillful graffiti artists, even the ones that paint on railroad or subway cars and on other spaces where they are really not wanted. And occasionally a town will reserve a wall for anyone who wants to paint, trying to channel graffiti makers from defacing walls where their work isn't welcome.
mae
What a great collection!
ReplyDeleteGreat collection of murals Mae. I love the giant ants and the bin with the bees is very cute. Thanks for participating.
ReplyDeleteGood for Ann Arbor, the murals look fine.
ReplyDeleteSome great finds there. Nice to see some art from Ann Arbor. The ants are very eye-catching. They reminded me of some ant-sculpture I spotted at the Oakland Zoo a few years ago. They were very attractive too.
ReplyDeletei love street art/murals! i think every city and town in australia has them now. fabulous stuff. have a great festive season. cheers sherry xx
ReplyDeleteSome good murals there. I love that big monster wall that's filled with color and the writers, too. That's very A2!
ReplyDeleteThese are fun to see! I love street art.
ReplyDeleteI love street art too! Thanks for sharing!
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