You really can find art in the strangest of places. Like my commute home after work. I can’t count how many times I have actually wished for “stop and go” traffic on 394 so that I could take a shot of the lone abandoned shoe lying on the shoulder (Don’t hate me.) Or wished that I had my camera on hand to snap a quick pic of the Honda CR-V flipped on it’s windshield (Note to self: do not buy a Honda CR-V) (Note to world: I don’t enjoy other people’s suffering. Really.).
Yesterday, I as driving along my usual route, stopped at a red light and saw a sign that made me do a double-take. And then a triple-take. And then spend a couple of moments wondering if it really was what I thought it was. And then hit the gas quickly because the driver behind me was starting to get annoyed that I was stopped at a now green light.
So today, I did a silly thing. While out shopping for Dad’s day gifts (Happy Father’s Day, Daddy!), I took the same route, camera figuratively in hand, to see if I was right. I was.
I’m not sure what this sign is forbidding me to do, but I want to learn how to do it. Just for the heck of it. 
Ah… Leora… you haven’t been violating road rules as long as some of us, and you can’t violate them unless you know what they are. That sign is a “NO U-TURN”, and they’re always placed where a u-turn might save you a lot of time.
I too like to shoot photos like your one shoe alongside the road. Couple of days ago I shot a tin can that had been flattened so badly that it has become part of the street.
Speaking of dumb rules (like the sign), I got kicked out of Petco this morning, for having a camera.
Bob Smith
I believe that’s an upside-down U-turn sign. So they’re telling you that that U-turn you just made? You shouldn’t have made it.
“NO HEAVEN ACCESS HERE.”
Yeah, I only have 12 years of driving experience (but they were all here in Minnesota, so I think it should count as more), and there may be some signs I don’t know right off the bat.
But this one, which would normally be a u-turn sign (they really do put those in the most convenient places to make u-turns, don’t they, Bob?), is indeed upside-down.
Maybe it’s to warn me that the people coming from the opposite direction aren’t allowed to make u-turns. And thus that they probably will.