Roadside Attractions

Many Oaks Path, Felicita Park.

Corner Ads, Ash Street

(Tomasito photos, 2010)

Worlds apart but close--we experience these roadside attractions often--almost every day.

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Golden Bush and Traffic

Daley Ranch Coast Golden Bush Slope.

Normal Daily Traffic. (Tomasito photos, July, 2010)

The above photos were made about a twenty minute drive and a half hour hike apart.

Southern California in the summertime.

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Happy Fourth of July

Patriotic Potatoes

Packed Park Parking Lot

(Tomasito photos, 2010)

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY

We hope all of you readers of our Trends of the Day blog have a very fun-filled day!

All of you in the United States especially. We Californios are joining you in celebrating our young country's birthday.

All the rest of of you scattered around the world--we hope your day is especially good in every way. Let us know who you are and where you are so we can enjoy your presence even more.

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Water

Escondido Water July 2010. (Tomasito photos)

Nightingale

Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. (Tomasito photo 2009)

(I don't have any photos of nightingales
and the one that sings around here is shy.)

Another bird that has been making music around here lately is a nightingale.

This very melodious critter starts his or her concert at about two in the morning and continues for an hour or two of solid music.

I don't know if she uses the telephone pole perch the other birds use in the daytime on sings out of one of the nearby treetops. I have never seen the bird--but the music is quite, could I say, professional.

Surely all this music is not necessary for the bird's survival--I can only imagine that he/she just LOVES to sing!

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Bird Talk

Bird on Telephone Pole. (Tomasito photo, 2010)

I have been having more fun "talking" to some birds that come to visit.

There is a telephone pole about 50 feet from our apartment window and lately two doves and a mockingbird have been showing up on the top of the pole and singing.

Their songs are quite loud in our bedroom and I have been whistling back to the mockingbird and "cooing" back to the pigeons and they seem to be interested in talking back to me! They sometimes seem to "reply!"

The mockingbird occasionally even springs up, does a fluttering flip and returns to the pole to continue the "conversation". It is SO cute!

A little "inter species communication" is a good way to start the day!

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Motorcycles at McDonalds

Plenty Served! (Tomas photo, 2010)

Summertime.

Time for the bikers to cruise thru town--and they DO in their thundering hundreds.

Often they just roll by on Grand Street, but last Saturday I caught them at a local McDonald's having a fuel-stop.


ALL have big sparkly, polished bikes--it's a fun tribal outing for them. For us it's a peculiar parade.

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