Urban Exploring - Fountain Square

The sporadic blogger returns.  Been a while.  Since I've been blogging over here for a while about my trip to Tanzania next year and my adventures as a beginning jogger, this blog has been a bit neglected.  Labor Day found us down one kid as Rachel spent the holiday with a little buddy and her family.  I have been very busy shooting photos lately and really needed to update my own kids photos.  For some time I had wanted to find a wall of graffiti to use a a backdrop.  Not the scummy run-down stuff but the stuff done by the talented individuals wielding spray paint.  The Painter crew had been down to Fountain Square to do some duckpin bowling over the weekend and I saw a photo of Hayden in front of the stuff I was looking for.  I did a little research and discovered that Subsurface Indy 2013 was this weekend and there was walls and walls of graffiti art in that area.  Score!

So Dusty, Aaron, and I loaded up in Stevie (our Dodge) and headed for the Fountain Square area which is a neighborhood just southeast of downtown Indy.  We struck out on restaurants. Most were either closed because it was Monday or because it was a holiday.  But we scored on the graffiti.  In fact, there was still several people working on a wall in an alley.

Not every kids gets to say that his sophomore photos include graffiti....it's how we roll.

I couldn't resist.  I needed one myself. :)

There were so many walls within close distance with every range of color imaginable.  Too bad it's a little bit of a drive for me, but I'll be back.

We ended up downtown for lunch and on the way back to the car Aaron spotted a candy and soda shop on the circle called Rocket Fizz.  We left with a bag of taffy.  Next time we'll pick up a bottle of the off-beat soda.

But NOT this kind!