Local Library Love

 

I love the public library--this is the book return slot (temporarily turned into this robot). 

LOL

 

Along the road... not PC, but funny in an eight-year-old humor kinda way!

Diners

 Funny: these are all sitting at tables at Bread and Cie, our fave cafe and bakery, to stop anyone from sitting inside. I do love Mr. Bill slumped down in his seat...

Quirky, Part Two

 The neighborhood person with the delightfully weird sense of humor is back! Behold...

Love it!

Ancient Selfie

Does it, or does it not look as if this guy is taking a selfie? So funny! (Instead, he seems to be amused by the bunch of grapes he is holding.)

I Feel You, Barbie

The eighties were an, um, "interesting" time for fashion on the whole, as many photographs of me from that time will bear witness. Here, proof that not even Barbie was immune. As for Ken...well, you know!

On (and By the Side of) the Road

 On the way from Albuquerque to Santa Fe...

 I see a Yeti in the clouds!

 Um...

 Okaaayyy...

 Huh?

 Cool bottles!

 Wow.

 No, I didn't stop-- the "Mine Shaft" sign was a bit disconcerting!

 What do I spy with my little eye over there?

Oh yeah--roadside dinosaurs! Why? Who knows!

Tinkertown Love

 This is a picture-heavy post: my visit to Tinkertown, which is located on the so-called Turquoise Trail between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. It is a fantastic folk-art environment built primarily by one man, Ross Ward (he was a carnival show painter for 30 years, and obviously he was a talented painter/carver/creator [and collector!]). I spent about three hours here (22 "rooms" in this museum; many of the rooms are built from bottles).

 A collection of advertising mechanical pencils.

 A collection of wedding cake toppers.

 This circus was apparently the first environment Mr. Ward created.

 Scary.

And horses! (This gorgeous animal and a miniature one, too.)

I cannot express how much I LOVE places like this and am so glad they exist in the world! (There was not one digital or computerized thing in the whole place.) Heaven.