Gayle Brennan Spencer – sending random thoughts to and from South Austin
‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Funky bud vases. I was supposed to be on a mission, but everything else was so distracting – the collective labels it “transcendent junk” – that I’m not sure I would have noticed a bud vase unless I knocked it over accidentally and it shattered it on the floor.
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Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
Alice: I don’t much care where.
The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.
Alice: …So long as I get somewhere.
The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you’re sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
The most recent post having left you well fed, it is time to work those calories off with a long rambling walk through the streets of Seville.
These remaining orphan photos that failed to find a home in earlier posts make no sense as a group.
Except… this randomness is part of the joy of slow travel. Taking time to stroll and explore areas you might otherwise overlook always leaves one “curiouser and curiouser.”
Seemingly unrelated snapshots can convey the diversified textures that are woven together to create a sense of place.
That makes sense, right?
Postcards from Barton Springs 