A red sky at night, and, from the West, creep the strains of an old sea chanty played fast on electric instruments, wafted with hickory smoke from the restaurant on the far banks of Waller Creek.

Two turtles sunning on a rock off the east bank of Waller Creek, while two pigeons sit on a drain-pipe. The pipe faces west. The rock outcropping upon which the turtles sit is a concrete artificiality created to add contrast to an otherwise unremarkable stretch of the creek.