Le Chien d'Acier

This cocker was sitting atop the action end of a metal cyclone fence somewhere on 15th Ave in the Central District. Lovingly detailed, yet worn from at least a decade or two of use, he looks back somewhat mournfully at the house he guards. Perhaps wishing he could be inside the warmth, and not out here on the cold, cold sidewalk.

It's small flourishes like this that make places interesting, although why the owners chose to immortalize a cocker spaniel in cyclone steel is unclear. A dear departed most likely. Nothing else about the house was particularly noteworthy, but it needn't have been: this little protector says it all.