Just across the street from the North Berkeley BART station is a house with a high-profile home industry: birdhouses fashioned from cast-off lumber. I think I noticed the place five or six years ago, and it has become more obvious since, with half a dozen or more pickups and other vehicles parked along the block across from the station, all festooned with these whimsical and perhaps even practical hand-crafted avian domiciles (I have yet to see these elsewhere, though I figure some must have sold by now). In the last month or so, the birdhouse entrepreneur has freshened the marketing with references to the new administration, economic stimulus, etc. I snapped this walking by the other night.
"You want it to be one way. But it's the other way."