[Fe] and other Ironies...

My very good friend Roberto visited this past weekend.  He suggested we find an urban setting and take some photos, so we settled on a strip of Columbia Pike in South Arlington.

I heard echoes of familiar places from my childhood as we walked past the Botánica Boricua (a one-stop shopping paradise for the local Espiritistas) and the Orisha ornamentations in their window.

A few steps away from the herbalist, I was reminded of a different Plant and his heavy metal melodies about a lady buying a...

("There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure...")

("With a word she can get what she came for...")

("And the voices of those who stand looking..."):
("ooh, it makes me wonder...")
("ooh, it makes me wonder...")

(" 'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings....")