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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says… Ah, At Last We Know
At last a confirmation. Always hoped there were extras around somewhere. (Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says… An Unimagined Danger
The errant are risky but it is the frivolous balls that are really treacherous. Sign on golf course fence, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California.Posted as part of Posted as part of the Weekly Photo...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says… Join the Dogwalkers’ Hall of Shame
This sign in the yard of a neighbor* begs the question: just how trainable are the owners? Hmm. Recorded. Camera? * For the record, I have lived here 10 years but never met nor seen this neighbor, who...
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States of Mind
Today’s Daily Prompt requests a post opposite to what I usually make. Thus and voila, a cartoon. I often imagine that I have one of these signs on my forehead. (I don’t manage to imagine that I look...
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If You Speak Spanish And You Survived, This Sign’s For You
When you enter Mandalay Beach in Oxnard, California you see a sobering sign: Welcome to our beach. You’re on your own. Now, millions of folks in California speak Spanish – and quite a few of them speak...
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An Unexpected Etching
Twice a week, the exercise class I have attended for years meets under a certain freeway overpass. The other day, I discovered a note scrawled in the concrete. I had never noticed it before. Now, I...
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Can You Spot The Redundant One?
Thanks to the bumper stickers, the politics of this car’s owner are clear. However, at least one of the stickers is unnecessary, telling us what we have already figured out. Can you spot the...
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Give Me An E! Give Me An S!
You know that feeling after a car window shatters and deposits a bizillion bits of glass on the concrete, then you walk across the glass in your steel-soled shoes? Worse than fingernails on a...
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*EVER YOU ARE, WE’RE AL*
One night this business was here, the next night there was no sign of it. (Insert Twilight Zone theme song here.) Okay, maybe not the very next night. Maybe several months later. Anyway, the point is,...
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Bossy but Classy
With my kneejerk rebellious streak, I am usually offended when somebody tries to control parking on what is, after all, a public frigging street! However, when I see this tilework sign, which graces my...
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Signs Not in Sync
How do I smell the ocean when vehicles drive along the sand? These signs need to talk more. (Admittedly, they are on opposite edges of the United States, but that is a technical detail.) While we are...
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Sisyphus the Sign Mender
DMV counter, 2013: Same counter, 2014: New sign, same outcome. I think I see where the problem lies. When you put kids on the counter, they squirm around and hurt the sign. That’s why the sign is...
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A Sign It Didn’t Go Well
By the time I got to the beach, the flowers had already started to shed petals into the sea. I don’t know what went down before I arrived, but a lovely bouquet in the surf can’t be a good sign. Too...
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Was There Something They Failed to Tell Me?
The first time I saw a sign like this, I jumped to an easy conclusion. Typo – need to add an s, guys! Then I saw a second, similar sign, and my outsider complex kicked in. Had my English teachers...
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Maybe I Do, Maybe I Don’t
When I first saw this sign, I wanted to know the back story. But soon I was glad that no one was around to ask, because this seemed to be a time when speculation would exceed reality. Note it is a...
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Certainly, This Beats The Alternative
At a traffic light in KoreaTown, I was stopped just long enough to snap this marketing strategy. (The WP Weekly Photo Challenge was On the Way.) Tagged: humor, photography, signs, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Almost Unimaginable
I collect evocative signs. Here are some of my recent favorites. Hoping they mean of and to: And now Big D-O’s is out of business. Standards too high, perhaps? Fortunately, this was not my...
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