Tag Archives: travel

Technically, this is not another ‘dia de los muertos’ post…

Posted on August 25, 2016 by pouringmyartout

So there we were, showing our English visitors around Seaport Village down by San Diego bay, and my younger daughter and her boyfriend found a cool candle shop… The candles were awesome… they had hard outer shells, with thinner parts … Continue reading →

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A kiss from the end of a war, and a war that might never end…

Posted on August 25, 2016 by pouringmyartout

You might recognize this famous kiss. This is a statue based on a photograph taken when the surrender of the Japanese was announced, and the end of World War Two brought about a lot of random kissing. I seem to … Continue reading →

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Why are there so many freekin’ kinds of desert… also, I think I got a photo of two clouds having sex…

Posted on August 22, 2016 by pouringmyartout

So on the way back from Arizona, I thought it would be fun to take pictures to show you some of the different kinds of desert. I know, some of you may have seen pictures like this from other trips. … Continue reading →

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Boats… and some English people… who, historically, know something about boats…

Posted on August 22, 2016 by pouringmyartout

There are my cousin, Lynne, and her boyfriend, Malcolm, our visitors from England, in front of the boat from the movie Master And Commander… and a Russian submarine… see, I told you we like to take pictures of each other … Continue reading →

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Pictures of a desert sunrise… for you… and because of you…

Posted on August 20, 2016 by pouringmyartout

So, as I stood on a desert hilltop not too long ago, the Led Zeppelin song ‘Kashmir’ floating through my head on a soft desert breeze, taking pictures of a magnificent sunrise, I realized something important. I wouldn’t be there … Continue reading →

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A really cute dog, a really big cactus, an ocean, a desert… and some sharks…

Posted on August 19, 2016 by pouringmyartout

So when I took Olivia, the little girl I babysit, to the aquarium in San Diego, I met this adorable little guy, a miniature border collie puppy… I can’t believe that was only yesterday… I was overlooking the Pacific Ocean, … Continue reading →

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A desert sunrise… and a fish… because I can…

Posted on August 19, 2016 by pouringmyartout

So right now, I am sitting in my daughter and her fiance’s apartment in Arizona. Once again, I woke up insanely early in the morning, just to get some extra cool pictures for you… this time of the sun rising … Continue reading →

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Even more fun with the English relatives…

Posted on August 18, 2016 by pouringmyartout

Uh… no… those aren’t the English relatives… those are chairs… There I am, making sure that cousin Dot and cousin Lynne and cousin Lynne’s boyfriend, Malcolm, don’t fall in the fish pond. Now some of you may remember the botanical … Continue reading →

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But does the horse have to be so… uh… anatomically correct???

Posted on August 17, 2016 by pouringmyartout

Here we are on day two of the recent visit by our English cousins… We went to Balboa Park. I have never bothered to find out why there is a statute of El Cid there… That was the last view … Continue reading →

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In which I finally tie in my visiting English relatives directly to dia de los muertos…

Posted on August 16, 2016 by pouringmyartout

Here they are… the very last pictures of the first day with our relatives visiting from England… and our exploration of Old Town in San Diego… We have all learned a thing or two about the history of the region, … Continue reading →

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