magnolia pods
beautiful horsetail (an ancient plant, reproduces by spores like ferns do) hedges landscaped into a rock-and-water garden in front of a (multi) million-dollar ocean-front home
jade hedges; rosemary hedges; bougainvillea spilling out over garages and porches and clay-tile roofs; hummingbirds; shore birds; harbor seals; cormorants and the white streaks of their excrement all over the rocky cliffs on the beaches in La Jolla; the black-crowned night heron fishing off of the ropes at the Maritime Museum; the beautiful black-and-white spotted feather with a bright-orange rachis that I brought home with me but still haven’t identified (anybody?)
ship’s ropes
I got all fancy-schmancy and used the digital switch-over function for b & w, something to which I’ve always been quite resistant. With my old Retina camera, b & w was de rigeur, but with digital, it always feels like cheating. What is wrong with me? Am I so pretentious that only 35mm b & w photography is good enough? Yeesh.
dummies in the ship museum (who still uses these guys? CREEPY and his hand looks bloodied!)
same dragon, different angle:
You know I’ve said I think boy pee has a stronger odor than girl pee, due to the testosterone and all. That was before I visited one of the San Diego airport’s women’s bathrooms at 9 pm on a Saturday and one of the Atlanta airport’s women’s bathrooms at 6 am on a Sunday. These loos smelled very strongly of pee, BOY pee. YIKES!!! Maybe our hormones are equal to and/or greater than theirs? (I’m baiting you, you know).
if this were a b & w photo, you might be confused as to who should use this john
They may talk big in the South about manners and all, but let me tell you, they don’t seem to know how to clean a bathroom.
Today’s song has nothing to do with So Cal except that our pal George sort of half-played it for us and we sort of half-sang along (as if we could it at all because the Feelies don’t really sing their lyrics, they sort of mumble them)
In Coronado, an uber-white, wealthy (or just wanna-be wealthy, for the clueless tourists?), tacky, less-cultured-than-La Jolla (if that’s even possible), gazillions-of-SUVs type community, there are a few places on the sidewalks and at the curbs where quarters are glued to the pavement, I kid you not.
First, it’s illegal (not to mention un-American) to deface American coins. How is it that in one of the most Republican counties in the US, this is allowed?
Second, it’s cruel. What, Coronado, you have so much money, you sit around on your xeriscaped patios watching the lowly plebians try to pick up quarters all day? What about the little barefoot ragamuffin getting run over in the street as he tries to pick up that coin he needs to buy a can of beans for his family’s supper? Have you no mercy?
So, Coronado Beach, keep your money glued to the sidewalks. We don’t need your stinkin’ quarters.
Look what this little New England street urchin found, not glued to the sidewalk:
Look what I saw when I came home:
I know this is not a great photo, but at least I didn’t make it b & w, right? I never saw a sunset like this in So Cal. Chalk one up for New England!
Fabulous sunset. I love these — we do get nice ones here. Especially over the Hudson.
I would like to see one of your sunsets.
wish i had the 12 string with me–that’s essential for the acoustic part on high road. and the tambourine. for the feelies you gotta have a tambourine.
ptd
Next time. I do not think I can play a tambourine, but maybe Paulie is good at it. I can just sing. I think I could brush up on some percussion, but I always feel I need to take a class or study or something. I think I will ask for a ukelele for my 50th birthday. That’s a goal.
go for the uke! you can play anything on a uke, the chords are pretty easy, and it’s fun. don’t let hubby cheap out and get you a 20 dollar one. spend a few bucks and get a good one. it’ll stay in tune.
ptd
yes the uke will make you a mad woman of music! my friend sharon sings w/me and plays the uke…she seriously plays anything on it from traditionals to band of horses!
er, uh the above comment was from mrs. pt…
and not that you’re not already a mad woman of music! –mrs pt (again…thrice commenting)