The Old West... and the New Pest

I went for a late-afternoon bike ride today and captured these images around the neighborhood.

At Fleming Park, rodeo rugrats can play. (I guess in Texas you can have guns on the playground!)


Down the street, at an art gallery, roams the mighty buffalo.

Rice University, to protect us from H1N1, recently installed hand sanitizer by the doors in our apartment building. "Nice!" says Garrett. "It's like we live in a bathroom!"