There are several great images as candidates for illustrating a wall.  Fences are tricker, but I think that there is one obvious choice:

The poem is, of course,”Mending Wall” by Robert Frost.  He uses “wall” and “fence” interchangeably, with the truly famous “Good fences good neighbors,” a dogma of his neighbor which he challenges.  Why do they make good neighbors?

Collected here thematically are photos of fences and maybe a wall or two, all of which struck me as quirky when I passed them.  Somebody thought about what the fence or wall would look like, and it took effort.

About these, Irv Staats wrote: Check out the beautifully carved fence at Tharp woodcarving at 3102 Shattuck. Each board is signed and dated on the back by a student.”

Who knew that fences and walls could lend quirk.  They do.

My friend sometimes has space issues, and even an innocent photograph of a wall or fence can get him edgy.  Not these though.  He was pretty cheerful about them.  In fact he was outright chipper when he told me that I missed the most obvious fence allusion possible.

He was anxious to show me some photos and postcards that his youngest brother had sent him from a family trip to San Francisco in 1957.  I said I’d look at the cards and photos once he let me know what he thought of the quirky fences and walls.  He did: