POTD: Mouthpiece

Mouthpiece
Lisbon, Portugal
2017

I got a kick out of all the graffiti scenes in Lisbon that integrated parts of the infrastructure into the composition. The imagination it takes to recognize the potential in such features as this doorbell and the cracked plaster in yesterday’s post is impressive.

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POTD: Rare Bird

Rare Bird
Lisbon, Portugal
2017

This was one of the few, maybe only, corvids I saw in Lisbon, and it might have been carved as an eagle or something else I suppose. I’ve seen ravens, crows, and/or magpies or their European corvid cousins in noticeable numbers in all the countries I’ve visited up until now.

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POTD: Don’t Get Mad, Get Angry

Don’t Get Mad, Get Angry
Lisbon, Portugal
2017

This post title wasn’t meant to be a prescription for behavior in 2018, it just seemed to fit the image. (Happy New Year by the way.) This was one of six very lifelike lions guarding the front of what used to be a bank building in Lisbon. The expressions were kind of unusual for the kinds of lions you usually see in front of buildings. I suppose on a bank they might intimidate would-be robbers but they would of course intimidate customers as well. Whatever the case, they were pretty cool.

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