Pouring My Art Out

Winter is coming… yay???

Posted on August 16, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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Gay wedding dia de los muertos tiles!!! How freekin’ cool is that???

Posted on August 16, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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It is so nice to know that the Mexican festival to honor and remember the dead is all-inclusive… and, that that inclusion extends to the afterlife.

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I hope you have enjoyed these posts of Old Town in San Diego, and my first day hanging out with my English relatives…

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I hope you learned a little about the history of Southern California…

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And also a little about the Mexican heritage that is such a large part of that history.

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Yes, I did a lot of walking in order to get all these pictures…

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I wanted to capture the color and vibrancy of the local art…

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And I tried to tie it all together with some amusing observations and stories.

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But in the end, I really do this for me as much as for you…

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Because when I do these posts, I get to relive the day.

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And that was a great day! Okay, there is one more post coming about the first day my relatives were here, and then we move on to day two… and day three…

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And for those of you who never bothered to Google what ‘dia de los muertos’ is all about, here is a brief explanation.

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A mammal with a reptile dysfunction… ha… oh man… I crack me up…

Posted on August 15, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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So, while we were gallivanting around Old Town with our English relatives, I was standing outside a toy store when they all went in to poke around, and I spotted this lovely couple through the window…

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The thing is… and this is the thing that made me take these pictures… that it looked like a love scene from one of those old, classic movies… Like Rhett Butler holding Scarlet O’Hara, leaning her back for the kiss…

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I went inside the toy store to take a photo from the other side… but that was just creepy…

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But from outside, it was really rather tender and passionate… I mean, considering the fact that they were hand puppets… and it was a raccoon and an iguana… but… other than that…

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Her scaly lizard mouth was saying no… but her little plastic eyes were saying yes… and something about wanting a hand stuck… well… never mind about that…

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I apologize for sharing six pictures of this intimate scene with you, but I couldn’t decide which best captured the moment… I also apologize for once again disregarding my ‘family friendly blog’ rule…

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It’s all relative(s)…

Posted on August 15, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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There is my cousin Lynne and her boyfriend, Malcolm, getting silly with a covered wagon in Old Town, San Diego.

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It is always fun to see things that you have begun to take for granted through the eyes of other people.

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I have lived in the ‘wild’ West all my life…

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But it is always good to be reminded that western culture has spread around the world. I don’t mean our fast food and retail malls… I mean our cowboy movies.

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To me, the covered wagon was just a prop for Old Town… but to our English visitors, it was a reminder of real history.

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Malcolm, cousin Lynne, and her mom, cousin Dot, had a great time that day… and so did I. And I guess so did whoever that guy photobombing them is.

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We showed them some of the history of San Diego…

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And I told you I wouldn’t waste the last of those three angel wing photos my daughter took…

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We introduced them to authentic Mexican food… and music… and tequila… and this was all just the first day of their visit.

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We are nearing the end of that first day… just a few more random posts about a few more random things… before we move on to day two.

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Dia de los muertos… part 7…

Posted on August 15, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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Maybe you thought I had run out of pictures for this dia de los muertos thing…

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But I tried to tell you… I walked a long way to get all these pictures…

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I had fun doing it, and I thought you might enjoy them.

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And the pure volume of the art is sort of interesting in and of itself, right? I mean, there you see tiles… ceramic tiles… so conceivably, you could tile your shower… or your entire house and garden… with dia de los muertos art…

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You could decorate your Christmas tree with little skulls…

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And then cover all your flat surfaces with little dia de los muertos knickknacks…

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I mostly like the colors…

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And the artistry…

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But those are some nice oven mitts…

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And you might as well go with the matching pot holders, right?

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Trump Airlines… ride the hot wind…

Posted on August 14, 2016 by pouringmyartout

TRUMP AIRLINES

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Well, that doesn’t seem like a very good idea…

Posted on August 14, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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But I should be fine… as long as nobody fires the gun…

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Oh man… and I thought Mollie’s boyfriend liked me…

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These are more of the photos I took in Old Town while our English relatives were visiting. There are cousin Lynne and her boyfriend, Malcolm, getting face to face with the history of San Diego.

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There is cousin Dot… whom, I will remind you, is over 80… Hey, I knew the margaritas were a good idea…

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Ummm… there is Dashawn… my younger daughter’s boyfriend…He got right into the spirit of things… almost too far into the spirit… and they are too young to have had any margaritas… I admit that doing funny poses in front of the old gun was my idea… but usually I am the one who goes one step too far… it is sort of my thing… I don’t know where the ‘line’ is… but man, this guy really fits into our family dynamic…

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Gun surfing… that’s more like it!

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Malcolm likes cacti… so San Diego is a good place for him…

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We might have all been getting a little silly at this point… hot sun… tequila… it’s been known to happen… especially with my family…

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There were these two life-sized planters in the shape of ladies, and covered with little succulent plants… and I had a good joke… What does a lady made out of plants wear under her dress?

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Planties!!!

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The English patience… ha… see what I did there?

Posted on August 14, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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There I am, still teaching my English relatives, cousin Dot on the left, cousins Lynne beside her, and Lynne’s boyfriend, Malcolm, about Mexican culture, food, and most importantly, tequila, in Old Town, San Diego…

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Oh yeah… big margaritas and big plates of real Mexican food…

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And we needed to fortify ourselves, because we did a lot of walking. Dot is over 80, and it was hard to keep up with her… and this was still the first day…

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Lynne and I have a funny thing we do… that started when we visited them in England last year… I try to take a picture of her when she is taking pictures of the rest of the group, and she turns to take a picture of me taking a picture of her…

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By this time… after all my walking around taking dia de los muertos and art and flower pictures while waiting for everyone to arrive, my younger daughter Mollie and her boyfriend… and my wife… were also with us. He said I could put him in the blog. My wife still doesn’t want me showing Mollie on the blog, but her face is obscured… and my wife still doesn’t look at my blog… ever… Just so you know, we staged this picture…

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And there I am again… a little buzzed… and sprouting angel wings. Mollie took three pictures of me in front of the wings, lining them up… and we all know I never waste a picture of me…

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More evidence of the water that Southern California steals every year… via a very long viaduct… (say that five times fast)… from Northern California.

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So I took these two pictures to highlight the fact that, due to the good weather in San Diego… and the pilfered water supply… anything will grow here… if you don’t mind running short of the stolen water…

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I don’t know if the two photos capture my point very well, but in them, you see cacti… which is what should be growing in a desert… which Southern California actually is… and a big pine tree… that would look more at home in Northern California, where it’s water supply comes from… and palm trees… which would be just as happy on a tropical island… all growing happily together in the never ending sunlight.

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It was so much fun to have them all here.

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Old Town in San Diego isn’t only about dia de los muertos art… part 2…

Posted on August 14, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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More photos of my epic adventure with my English relatives in Old Town, San Diego…

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But I didn’t want to give you impression that all the art was dia de los muertos-oriented.

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Oh no… mixed in among the stores and stalls that sell the cheap tourist crap are many wonderful places that sell real art…

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And it comes in an astounding variety…

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I like a shark with a bad sense of direction.

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Because I had time to kill before the relatives arrived in Old Town… and due to the fact that we walked around a lot after they got there… I tried to take photos that would give you a real taste of that variety.

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I loved the big scorpions that flanked the gate in front of the store with the shark on top!

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And everybody likes little metal donkeys… except little metal quail… who just glare at them angrily all day…

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Oh, I knew I took a photo inside the store with the ‘fancy tin products’ sign! These tin lantern lights were just some of the lovely tin art objects they offered.

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I know… I went overboard with this whole thing… we are still on the first day of the three days my English relatives were in town, and we are covering a lot of ground… but as long as we were showing them the sights, I figure you might as well see some of them too.