Again, very nice and moving documentation of the aftermath of the fires. We have a local guy in my area who does a lot of outdoor art: Seward Johnson:
https://www.photo.net/photo/17485574 https://www.photo.net/photo/17482263 https://www.photo.net/photo/17485534 Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 1:00 PM Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I went for a bike ride yesterday, I took the K-1, ended up going through > some other burned out areas on hwy 236 aka Big Basin Way. > > I stopped to take a photos of something else in the “fallen leaf” > neighborhood and this caught my eye > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50362939082/in/album-72157716043467568/ > > About a block further up at the corner of Jamison Creek and big Basin Way > I saw this next to a burned out house. It’s funny, I realized that in the > moment, the loss of a child’s toy affected me as much as the loss of the > house > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50362830461/in/album-72157716043467568/ > > This intersection was in the news back in June. Someone saw a white > parked here with guns in it. To make a long story short it belonged to a > right wing extremist (boogaloo) who shortly thereafter murdered a deputy, > nearly killing his partner, and who it was later discovered had killed a > cop two weeks before in Oakland. It’s been an overly interesting summer > for our sleepy little community. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50362826386/in/album-72157716043467568/ > > A few weeks ago, someone posted a photo of a James Dean mural. Years, and > a couple owners back, the owners of the Brookdale lodge had a similar mural > painted on a wall facing hwy 9. Someone else bought the place, worked on > cleaning it up, and painted over the mural. There was an incredible uproar > from all of the locals, so they hired someone else to paint a new one, > which sucked. Another renovation cycle later, they were very close to > reopening, and Covid hit. They do, now, have a much better mural than the > last: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50362836591/in/album-72157716043467568/ > > If you go down towards Salinas, you will see a lot of John Cerney’s work: > https://www.johncerneymurals.com/ > > I just liked the title of this article I found about him > https://carmelmagazine.com/archive/outstanding-in-his-field > > Anybody who has driven South to Monterey on the coast has seen the > whimisical painting of someone loading a giant artichoke into a Nash > metropolitan, itself even larger than a real one which is at the bottom of > this page > https://www.roadarch.com/signs/cerney.html > > Full set from yesterday. Again, it’s a bit large as it’s a lot of > documentation: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157716043467568 > > I have come to the conclusion that of the natural disasters I’ve > experienced so far, wildfires are my least favorite. > > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
