Public art encompasses any form of art you see in a public place, large or small, statues, murals, graffiti, gardens, parks, etc. The art should be visible from streets, sidewalks, or outdoor public places. Let your imagination and photographic eye show us diverse samples all over the world.
Last week for PPAC #33 Wickenburg Walk #3, I had a marvelous response from all of you. I want to say thank you to each of you for joining along in our challenge. Here are the featured bloggers for this week. Their posts really grabbed my attention. They are all worthy of a second or third look.
FEATURED BLOGGERS
My Choices for PPAC #34 Williams, AZ Walk #1
I promised you some pictures of PPAC from Hawaii, or at least that’s what I wrote in my curation calendar. However, this weekend Vince and I needed to get out of the house. Covid Omicron has run its three-week course. We hadn’t been contagious for over two weeks. With no temperatures and just stuffy noses, we were bored. So we drove an hour north of Prescott to Williams, AZ.
What a shock when we drove into the first gas station.
Even the gas tank looked like it might not be too fresh. We finally got a clue when we walked up to the door to visit the museum. “Closed for the winter. See you in March.”
We drove around the rest of the town. A few cars were parked along the street. Some of the people looked like they had been waiting a while for the stores to open. We decided to come back in the summer.
Other Challenges that Inspired WQW #34
The only restriction with Squares is that at least one picture in the bunch is square, and it’s odd. We found it very odd that the entire town was pretty much closed even though I know now that they get snow in January, but that wasn’t much snow! Very odd.
I loved the odd surprise in the back of the truck especially after just photographing a similar prisoner in Wickenburg. Poor guy. He didn’t have to put up with 110 degrees in the summer, but it looks like the winter was fairly harsh for him.
I also loved the old gas pumps. Some of the photos I could square, and others I didn’t want to cut that much out of the picture, but nonetheless, I thought the entire trip was a bit odd.
I have a few more I can show you next week. It looked like next door to the museum was a PPAC factory, which I thought was pretty odd. So onward and odder we go as we triple dip into PPAC today.
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Now it’s your turn.
Thanks so much for stopping by and having fun with PPAC, SQUARE ODDS, WHICH WAY CHALLENGE AND WEEKEND SKIES.
You’ll love Hammad’s weekend skies if you haven’t seen them already. It was his birthday and he left us a treat.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
65 responses to “PPAC #34: Best Gas Prices in Arizona”
I feel really sorry for that poor chap.
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He’s in pretty bad shape!
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Many cool shots, thanks for sharing!
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Entertaining as always. I love seeing the old petrol pumps. I can’t remember them being as fancy here.
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They were probably dirty most of the time when they were in use all the time. They were before my time, I think they were sort of 1920s art deco, but I’m not an expert on old gas tanks, Susan.
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Thanks, Susan. ๐
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Love the skeleton fellow.
Scarry!
My contribution
https://philosophyvia.photos/2022/02/06/horse-head-drinking-fountain-bruges-belgium/
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Love the photo and the quotes. Fun post! ๐
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what a nice surprise to come across!
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It was fun! I should have stocked up! LOL
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Here you go, a funky cultural centre with wings and a couple of victories. Today is a good day. An interesting find you have for us.
https://manjameximexcessive6.wordpress.com/2022/02/05/ppac-prekmurje-5-lendava-cultural-centre/
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Wow, just wow!
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So that poor fellow in the back of the truck… I bet he’s hungry. ๐
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Looks to me that he’s way past that. I don’t think he made it through the last big snow storm. ๐
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Maybe so, but I’ve always heard that Arizonans are tough. >grin<
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Love it! ๐
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Thanks for linking, Irene. I’m amazing at how much blogging you can do with all the other things you are doing – especially repairing cars! ๐
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I enjoyed your adventure Marsha and before finding out it was a museum I was thinking how different your petrol bowsers are to ours. Hope you managed to find a petrol station somewhere. It must have been nice to get out after a few weeks isolating. Glad you both didn’t suffer greatly with the virus.
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I didn’t realize it was a museum when we pulled up, but it was such a cute set-up. Fortunately we didn’t need gas. More importantly we found a gas station that had restrooms!
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definitely very odd!!
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Thanks, Becky B. ๐
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First of all, thanks so much for the feature. Greatly appreciatedโฆ now, here is mine for this week incorporated with other challenges. But I think overall it is for PPAC.
https://mywanderings.travel.blog/2022/02/05/summer-days-at-bunjil-place/
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You’re welcome for the feature. Congratulations!
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Great photos, love the elk. We’re just out of isolation too, my photos are from before catching the virus.
Thanks for featuring my lovely dragon.
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You are so welcome! Congratulations. I’m sorry you got the virus. Hopefully with so many people catching it, we will kill the pandemic with our natural immunities. I’ve been double vaxed, but I still caught a mild case of it.
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love that you got out of the house and took us on the tour and can’t wait to see the museum when it reopens! Just don’t hold me captive like the prisoner. looks like halloween. ๐๐คฃ๐
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It probably was for Halloween. They closed and never changed the decor.
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I’m leaving my one fake tree up all year for the first time so I get it.. ๐คฃ๐คฃ
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Vince talked about doing that and decorating it differently each month. LOL We took it down.
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i know but by now it should have hearts on it and well…and the lights suddenly went out.. I think… it’s outta here.. ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
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Good choice. We used to have an old ladder – that I disliked because it was so hard to clean. We, meaning Vince, decorated it with red lights, then white ones. It did stay up for several year.
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I think so too.. tomorrow it’s going down.. hahahaha! as long as it’s fun.. we do it.. right ! ๐ whatever floats our boat right?! ๐
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Now you have to figure out what to do with that space again. LOL
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And therein lies the problem. I loved the lights!
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I could have given you my dusty, splintery ladder.
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LMAO!!! ๐๐คฃ๐คฃ
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I particularly liked the gas pumps!
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Thanks so much! I did too. And they are sparkly clean looking, too.
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Best gas prices in town indeed. The wait for gas there seems just as bad as waiting for Costco gas.
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Not quite but lots of folks getting gas here too. I have a hybrid so Iโm spoiled.
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Marsha, thank you for sharing your delightfully odd adventure.
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Thank you so much Suzanne. ๐
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This is a very adorable post. Well done my friend ๐
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High praise, my friend and mentor!
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That made me smile. Great photos of what looks like a really interesting place.
Here is mine:
https://photographias.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/ppac-tokyo-2/
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Great choice for this week!
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Great response for this week, Natalie. Thanks for joining PPAC!
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Marsha, I’m glad to hear you and Vince are well to go on a road trip. The old gas pumps in your post are so interesting. Thank you for hosting PPAC.
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Hi Natalie, Thanks so much. We are 100% back on track now. It feels so good. I still have my vein problem, but it doesn’t bother me too much now except for occasional surgeries.
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