Getch'er ministries an' yer toys right here, folks...or maybe it's clothing and toy ministries?
Taken on my way from one place to another. I drove through a part of town I have no reason to drive through, and now I want to go back just to see more stuff like this.
On a crappier note, my photo software has decided for the first time in two or three years to (&^*^&$% quit on me. I had to jerry-rig this setup to download the photos, which will NOT work if I have to do more than twenty or so pics. I hope to have this resolved before long, but if photos suddenly stop showing up here, you’ll know why. I’ll keep taking them, I just won’t be able to post them until I have this crap figured out.
Alright, your last pic *really* looks like a nutria, and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this sign on Airline Highway. Are you sure you’re not actually in Metairie?
It totally does, you’re right, and I was really worried that I was getting excited over a plain old giant water rat (which would also be a really bad thing if they were getting this far north). But after looking at dozens and dozens of pictures of rats (man, I have the best life!), I’m still certain this is a muskrat. The nose on the nutria is blunt and rounded. This little guy has the pointy, fine schnoz of a muskrat. It’s still kind of freaking me out that it’s sort of a giant rat, though. A turtle would have been more fun.
I should go back to that part of town and take more pictures of signs. It was a feast for the eyes. That was by far the best one, but I was in the car, and this was the only one I could snap while I was sitting still at a light.
Mel – I thought the same thing! “There are nutria rats up north?” Must be a nutria’s yankee cousin.
What does that sign mean? Did you go into the store? Clothing, toys…and God? That’s what I get out of the word “ministry” anyway. Unless it’s the 90’s band Ministry, which I doubt. Bizarro.
He didn’t get out of the water. I think he was curled up by the edge of the steep bank when I walked up and scared him back in. Sorry there isn’t anything nearby for a reference. They really are similar animals. You have to look at the nose closely. Go look…
See? See what I mean? It’s the nose.
Gen, I don’t know *what* that sign means, which is precisely why I took a picture of it! I always enjoy when someone screws with the English language so much that all I can do is scratch my head. I think it’s a second hand place that works in collusion with a church. There was a Methodist place adjacent to it at the intersection, so it might have been part of that. I didn’t see any signs of Al Jorgensen, so I think we can assume that the musical connection isn’t applicable here. Worth considering, though. What if Al ran a second hand shop that also functioned as a Church of Rock?