Mona McPherson, the newest addition to alley art

Artist and pop-up shop favorite Wade Crowder, whose fabulous garden was featured on this blog last September (see it here), emailed recently that he had painted a Mona Lisa on his garage in the alley between McPherson and Westminster. Readers may remember seeing a weathered painting of Frida Kahlo, below, gracing another garage in the same alley, photographed on a sunnier day. Art and alley gardens (look here and here) make an expedient way of crisscrossing the neighborhood even more rewarding.