B Is for...

Bee, and borage.

(Pic from last year...the borage hasn't bloomed yet this year.)
 

Smileflower

 They make you smile, don't they?

Then and Now

 

Sock Monkeys in Love

 

(I made both of these...)

Day Trip to the Salton Sea: Some Details

 

Day Trip to the Salton Sea: Bombay Beach

 

Our final stop was Bombay Beach. Bombay Beach was once a "resort" town (allegedly), but when the sea (it is really a lake, technically) began to become overly salty and polluted in the 1970s, Bombay Beach's fortunes fell. 

Artists have made artworks in and around the abandoned buildings--but they are not all abandoned; according to the last census, 295 people lived there. There is an art exhibition/festival every year, and some of these pictures are of artworks from previous shows. 

It is rather creepy there, I must admit...we didn't get out of our car (except to take a selfie in front of the giant airplane artwork). 

This is the only restaurant in the area--and it is closed due to COVID, of course.

As we were slowly driving along, all of a sudden, in front of us, appeared a pack of wild dogs! Tiny, tiny dogs...

(They are actually not wild--they all ran up a driveway as we approached.)

And why not a tiny pack of tiny dogs in eerie/sad/fascinating Bombay Beach?