Eenie Meenie Chili Beanie

Here's hoping some friendly spirits speak up in the coming year!

The Obligatory Holdiay Slideshow

The usual stuff---trees, lights, Santas, some snowmen reindeer, elves and toys thrown in for good measure. Merry Christmas to all from TSG!

Zoomy, Squiggly Xmas Lites [sic]

TSG knows you've had it up to here with the usual holiday illumination pics--they've all just become so clichéd, don't you think?  As a tonic, this year we've lengthened our exposure times, done some swiping, swooping and zooming and tossed in a couple of multiple exposures in an attempt to come up with something a little different.

Q:What? A:The Dickens

Assorted signage from the lanes, alleyways, shoppes and halls

 of the 46th Great Dickens Christmas Fair. Bonus points to anyone
who can spot the connection to last week's post.

This Weekend's B-attle Sightings

Fab4 encounters @ the SJ Toy Show & various SF Gift Shoppes

BBC(Bonus Beatle Content)--link to youtube clip from Rutland Weekend's 1975 Christmas episode: George Harrison, Pirate

Troll o' The Day

The Secret Garden / Carmel-by-the-Sea CA

My Own Private [Photos Of] Idaho

Assorted Distortions

(Or: how to kill a few hours messing around with sunset pics on a rainy afternoon)

Things You Might See On A Trip To Frog Lake

Red Rum, Etc.

 From the Kubrick Exhibition Tour:

Overlook Maze model fabricated  by Mythbuster Adam Savage

Jack 'n Axe

...Smell My Feet, Give Me Something Good To Eat...

Impressive Local Fungus Revisited

Readers will surely not remember (or at best, may vaguely recall) TSG's blogpost of October 25th 2014 when we featured a really nice looking bracket fungus(?) that had taken up residence in the tree stump outside. 

Well, here we are, two years down the road and that tree trunk is well on the way to being a poster child for (wait for it...) mushroom root rot!!!

The original bit in the trunk hollow seems kinda worn out now, but the fungus marches on. There are weekly mushroom "blooms" around the stump and additional growths have begun to ooze out amongst the river rocks that surround the base. It's pretty cool being able to watch the process of natural decomposition right outside our front door.

Special Guest Ornithischian @ Blackhawk's Western Dioramas

One facet of the Blackhawk Museum's "The Spirit of The American West" exhibit is a pair of huge dioramas that span the back wall of the gallery. A neat series of set pieces blend into each other creating a cool panorama of the Wild West with Cowboys and Indians, hunters and ranchers, villages and homesteads, cattle drives and massive herds of bison. There's even a triceratops--an extremely rare sight back in those days. 

Preview Of Tonight's Debate

Topical H'ween decorations seen whilst

wandering the 'hood

Possibly part of an upcoming series

Regarding Flying Objects

Moonie & Broon / NorCal RenFaire

Posterized Pile O' Pumpkins

Uesugi Farms / San Martin, CA

A Good Sign For Amphibious Drivers

Grover Beach, CA

Thanks, Patrick!

That would be Patrick from apartment D-1, who came up to me at the mailbox yesterday and said, "You like The Who, don't you? I have something I want to give you..." He wandered back to his place and came back a minute later with this:

Patrick is the other resident rock fan here at Hermitage Arms. His concert-going career goes back a long ways. How far back does it go, you're asking? Well, he saw The Beatles at the L'Olympia Theatre in Paris in 1964.  Cool guy.

Have A Seat

Baypointe Pkwy / SJ CA