A Living Magazine - Day 95 - Just Tags and Trains

I awoke after a night with no further sightings of the shadow man, well rested and ready for another day. On my walk into town I started to realize that there were single taggers (graffiti artists) and "gangs" of taggers who might also be selling substances. "Stones" was the one I'd kept seeing all over town...

But there was also: "Baph", "Acid IX", "DUI", "OTL", and "Canyon Boys", among many others. I absolutely had to do a laundry before I completely ran out of money, so I went to the "Superwash" again...

Item that are always on me: knife, Visine, wallet and change box.

While waiting for my clothes to wash and dry I took some more shots, trying different settings on the new camera. Here are some macro shots...

No idea what these are, and they're everywhere on the chain link fences.

A bee bee.

The long-missing...

I also took a short video of the fountain outside, which is in the town's basalt motif, and happened to catch a train carrying plane fuselages (please see the video at the bottom). I was able to change into my swim trunks to do the laundry. The only thing I forgot to wash was my rain jacket--which I'd been using as a ground cover, since losing the tarp.

I needed to go back to Wal-Mart to buy shavers, so I walked to the Transit Center along Sprague Street, past a boarded up hotel with these murals...

And the theaters...

I looked for the $1.50 bus fare but only had $1.45, so I swung by the park on my way to RiteAid, to get a little cash back...

I bought a banana for $0.75 and got $4.00 in ones, and a dollar in quarters, then returned to find Bus 25 ready to depart. I hopped on and rode out to Wellesley, where I decided to walk to Wal-Mart--not knowing when the Wellesley bus might go by. Again - like a couple days before - it passed me right before the bus stop. But I got to see my favorite of all flowers, Heavenly Blue Morning Glories...

Ipomoea tricolor.

And a sunflower, bowing under its own weight...

There is always a Wall Street. I took a video of it's intersection which appears at the end of the video below...

Laundry and Wall Street test video.

I bought the shavers and returned to the bus stop near McDonald's to catch the Bus 33 transfer to Ash, Bus 23, and then got back out at the park stop. I went to the library and made my daily post, which took until they closed.

When I got back to the creek, it was dark. I stood for a while just listening to the sounds around me and the highway far above, wondering when a train might go by. Then I got the idea of making a high quality recording of what it sounded like without and with a train. Since, I've heard these sounds every night for a month, I thought it might be nice if you could close your eyes, listen and imagine yourself there, alone.

Audio from the Spokane Sleeping Place - Freeway

Audio from the Spokane Sleeping Place - Train and Freeway

What a simple day it had been. Laundry, Wal-Mart, the Library and "home". I could have been any citizen of this pleasant place--not just a homeless transient. I laid out the bedding and went to sleep around 10:00 pm.