we met an old nps friend and his wife at georgetown, and they took us to the deep eddy vodka joint in the wilds of dripping springs ----texas military institute (ca 1868)
but omg austin --- i was there last in 1986, and it's over twice as big now --- the UT tower,
the site of our first domestic massacre by a fukd up white man (sixteen killed in 1966), and the dome of the capitol are difficult to discern in the skyline today --- our friends drove us around and we saw a little of sixth street but not much of anything until a drive and walk to the top of mount bonnell
the park at the top is called covert park, apropo i thought, given the numerous trails i observed meandering off into the bushes --- turned out to be the family name of the donors of the land
the graffiti park, located just off 11th street, west of the capitol, was great,
--- started in olden times, 2011, on the foundations of a failed residential development, and now, lo and behold, is "iconic" --- also since the first of the year at least, it has been behind chain-link fencing, under armed guard
the armed guard seems a little pointless given
they're gonna tear it all up anyway --- but people sue and what not and the new owners' accountant suggested restricting access i'm sure ---
graffiti art is by nature ephemeral, i guess, but still . . . . especially irritating in this rendering is the little slash of color across the front there
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