Forecast: 88°/74°, lots of sun and then partly cloudy
Humidity: 70%
Sunrise 6:38 am., Sunset 6:18 p.m.
The picture below was the fence that made me realize I ought to have a post just about posts . . . fence posts, to be more specific. Fences here are definitely not a "safety first" feature of life!
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| A pointy addition to the top of a standard chain-link fence. |
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| Not "pretend" pointy, but "for real" pointy. |
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Fleur de lis are common; sometimes they're painted
different colors than the rest of the fence, sometimes not. |
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Another pointy addition, this time atop a concrete wall.
Notice that there are three kinds of points:
star-shaped ones and short triangles forward,
and tall triangles pointing backward. Ouch ouch ouch. |
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No points on top. This place is for sale!
(That's what "se vende" means) |
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| This fancy place has razor-wire coils on top of their fence. |
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| A close-up: it's not barbed wire, it's really razors. Yeesh! |
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| Not every fence is dangerous on top; a few are just pretty. |
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| A different style of pointy fence. |
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| This tall stone fence is pretty, and quite atypical. |
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| Here's razor-wire atop a chain-link fence. |
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| The Russian embassy has coils of razor wire, obviously. |
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Except when it doesn't. This section of the embassy fence
just has outward-facing points. |
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A different kind of diamond-like points;
maybe these are like spear heads? |
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And another kind of diamond points.
These remind me of soldiers standing in a line,
with arms out at their sides. |
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A different kind of fleur-de-lis,
a bit boxier than the usual kind. |
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These have little balls on the top, to keep them from
being too scary. |
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These just pinch the tops of the square bars
to make points at the top. |
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No pointy-ness at all.
This is a pretty gate, I think. |
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| This is another pretty gate with iguanas on top. |
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Here's a close-up of the iguanas.
They are pointy on top, so maybe they're Guard Iguanas?
 | A live iguana, for comparison, seen through the screen
of the porch where I eat lunch. See? The iguana really does have a
spiky fringe, just like the fences. |
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This is another gate I love -- it has machine parts
welded to a chain-link fence, and painted bronze/gold. |
And that's a quick tour of the tops of fences in my neighborhood, all of them found on the mile-and-a-half-long walk my husband and I take each evening here.
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Update:
I just did a half-kilometer circle of a walk in the other direction, and found even more amazing fence posts to add to this collection.
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| Spiky and colorful! |
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They look like they're doing jumping jacks:
Up, down, down, up, down . . . |
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Fleurs with little balls on top and extra pitchforks out front.
There are even pitchfork-y tines on the pillar. |
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These have hols in the middle.
Donut fleurs? |
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| No spikes, but nicely decorative iron work. |
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These aren't square posts: they're slats with
trapezoidal points on top. |
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A topper I hadn't seen elsewhere,
and another house for sale. |
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The same topper as in the gate above,
but with other iron curly-cues added for extra decoration. |
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