Murals Along Narrow Roads in the Next Town

Hello, everyone!

It's been a long while since I last shared street art and I'm glad to have something today.

Earlier in the day, we drove to the other town for a quick visit and to meet someone we had an appointment with. It's almost a year since we had been there so we were surprised to see the beautification efforts along the village roads, especially the murals and artwork.

They are hard to miss because they are large, bright, and quite colorful. Even my father-in-law who came with us commented on how pleasing they were. The roads are narrow (single-lane) so these photographs were captured mostly at close range.

Vegetable farming is one of the main livelihoods of people here and the artist/s (we have no idea who did these murals) tried to depict that (with some twists) in the artwork.

A fit indigenous man in ethnic costumes (G-string and bandana which according to history were used by generations centuries ago) carrying a huge cabbage and the other guy with a super large potato. Papa laughed at seeing their toenails painted saying there was no nail polish back in the day. Well... that is why I said the artwork had some twists, lol! They are a mix of the old and modern.

Anyway, these were seen on the concrete fences along the residential areas. It was drizzling but I am glad it isn't obvious in the photos. They were photographed on our way home.

These two mighty women look nice in their boots, hehe! One is looking rather unhappy with a huge pepper (or is it squash?) on her head while the other seemed pleased with her carrot, lol!

The photos below on the other hand were on the retaining walls along the farms. I just snapped them in the morning while the car was running. We were rushing to meet someone and didn't want him to be waiting so there was no time to stop or pull over.

We thought to take better photos in the afternoon, unfortunately, the rain poured around 2 pm so we had no chance to do that. I was just thankful I got a few shots earlier in the day.

The long retaining wall was covered in colors - blue, green, pink and what else. Other parts haven't been painted yet. Perhaps we will be seeing more on our next visit. I'll make sure to capture them too.

We heard that each village in that town is beautifying its vicinity and there are prizes to be won by whoever is the most creative among them. It is pretty interesting how their local government encourages them to liven up their environment through certain initiatives.

And this is it from me today, thank you and Happy Thursday, frens!