Open on Sunday

After we hit Manuel's, Tesoros, and La Peña's gift shop, and after we peeked into Las Manitas, we headed over east. The Carver branch was open. While I unloaded magazines for the swap shelf, which was very picked over, K. had fun listening in on a political meeting (the Green party?). As is true of every Austin library branch, the library was full of patrons and the books were few. Then we checked out Big Red Sun, which has not yet unpacked a new shipment of bulk seeds. There is a very sweet bi-colored version of violas there, but we already have a lot. Inside the house were handsome clothes for children, a good selection of books, and various small items including reprints of Victorian show cards to be used as gift cards. I had never noticed that there were still some hand-painted windows in the adjoining building, which had been a cleaners not all that long ago. Why did one window say "RUINED"?