A store closes, and a window opens...

...figuratively speaking, of course. This triptych - displayed on adjacent window shutters (don't know why I didn't get a shot of them all in a row) presented itself early one morning in St. Petersburg:





Photos all taken shortly after 6am on July 5th, 2005, in the area of Gorokhovaya (formerly Dzerzhinskogo) St., St. Petersburg, Russia. Enlarging the first one will reveal that the inscription in red reads, "make art, not war," and that the head is a Jimi-Hendrix-head stencil (which I saw and photographed elsewhere later the same day):



Corner of Zhukovskogo and Vosstaniia Streets, 8:55pm, July 5.