A place for my photos and thoughts and stuff.
I went to an estate sale in a nearby neighborhood.
There are two ways to look at them. It’s either sad to see a house once happily occupied empty and disheveled, and a deceased person’s things greedily pawed through, or it’s comforting to see a home that was obviously well-loved for a long time, and the things they once used ready to be useful or cherished by another.
I choose the second option.
If nature doesn’t provide it, make your own.
Looks the same to me.
It’s all fun and games until someone decides you’re spending too much time enjoying your rainbow and not paying attention to her.
Don’t see many of these things around any more.
(Don’t think too hard about the bottom one, it’s a tiger).
My talent for almost winning has not deserted me.
They’re not kidding. They’ve got elk! More than one!
“The Nude Dude”…
The world’s largest surfboard…
A mural decorating the side of the International Surfing Museum…
Cowabunga!
And I kind of ignored the recommended gauge…
It’s supposed to be a shawl. And it is…for a large couch. Or a small car.
OK, not Palm Springs. It’s in Indio.
Another classic roadside attraction: Shields Date Garden!
Tragically, the theatre was closed that day.
It’s like an oasis in the desert.
They have this giant Marilyn Monroe downtown.
There were too many homeless people around so we didn’t linger. We hit the road to the next stop of the day.
This is a famous art installation in the swanky “Movie Colony” neighborhood. This somewhat loopy guy inherited a fancy estate from his parents, then proceeded to fill it with garbage…I mean repurposed items…that is lit up with a massive number of lights.
These creations stay up all year and fill the entire property. The guy almost bankrupted himself with his light bills, and there have been lots of lawsuits from neighbors.
Not hard to see why, but it was kind of fun to see it.