3/18/2026

A Good Day for Urban Art-Part 1.

I ride a bicycle hundreds of miles a month. I take a lot of pictures. The good thing about cell phone cameras isn’t that they are “just as good” as fancy cameras.

They aren’t

I am too cheap for a fancy camera, so I have learned to get good results through technique.

I file my pictures by date. I label many of them for a theme. I take a lot of pictures of wildlife. I take pictures of trash. I take pictures of wildlife living amidst trash.

I take pictures of urban art. Some of it is sanctioned. Most of it is not. The unsanctioned stuff is dismissed by the authorities, and their sheep, as ugly, and criminal.

I am a criminal.

The following is a review of a particularly productive ride, with commentary.

Carved from a fallen Torrey Pine north of Torrey Pines State Park.

Seen on a bike trail under the I-5, I-805 interchange north of San Diego.

A little commentary.

In the same underpass. I have been following the Cal Exit movement. apparently I am not the only one. Multiple artists in both of the above images.

Kokopeli is an image from the native cultures of the American southwest. He was a mystical wanderer who would announce his approach to tribes as not-threatening by playing a flute. Figures like this carried news throughout the indigenous cultures.

This has been here for months.

The bike trail turns inland to follow State Highway 56. to I-15, which enters San Diego from the Northeast. It first passes under I-5, where I came across a street artist’s paradise.

Someone is a Kurt Vonnegut Fan.

I am fairly certain that this a puma droppings. Recently their numbers are recovering to the extent that these incursions into the fringes of civilization are on the rise.

This is going to be installment one, since Substack is warning me that I am reaching a data Limit