The Year In [Animal] Pictures

2020 Inflation Woes Reflected In Neighborhood Holiday Displays

Here's wishing everyone a Happy Krimble and a Merry Goo Year!! 

Enchantment [Not] Under The Sea

The fantastic Bay View Elementary School mural that runs along Mission Street in Santa Cruz. Artist: Taylor Reinhold

Santa In Tinsel Town

 

Pinnacles Pics

Home to both bats and condors, Pinnacles National Park is a great place to get away from it all and spend a day exploring.

Mollusk Of The Week

 UCSC Mascot Out For A Forest Crawl

 

Incomplete List Of Stars Who Never Stayed @ The Movie Manor Motel...

...and the room numbers they didn't stay in

Oh I Wish I Were...(Mobile Version)

 Thanks to Molly and Spence -- Hotdogger Team 33 -- for paying a visit to the Beach Boardwalk last week. We do, however, have to question their dog-topping preferences...TSG is firmly in the no-ketchup camp in the sausage condimenting department.

 

 

What Well-Dressed Trees Are Wearing These Days

 A cross section of tree sweater fashions (an annual art project/charity event) on display in downtown Livermore CA

Halloweeny-est Thing Seen On The 2020 Road Trip

 Extremely creepy piece entitled Jerry's Nightmare from a contemporary art exhibition at the Old Montana Prison Museum

The Fake Stonehenge @ Maryhill WA

Around 6K Miles In About 120 Seconds

Sussing Out The Giant Crab Of Eureka

Passing through the NorCal burg of Eureka this afternoon, TSG got a drive-by glimpse of this oversized metal crustacean where 101 bends south just past the downtown area. At the moment we were disinclined to stop for further investigation, so we took to the interwebs to do a little sleuthing later on.

A quick google street view search showed the big guy there as well:

A little more digging came up with a slightly better image and a couple of local stories revealing that the big crab was created by metal shop owner Dan McCauley for the town's 2018 Street Art Festival and subsequently made an appearance at Burning Man in 2019. 

So now we (and you) know (at least some of) the rest of the story.

East Or West, Chicken Creek Is Best

 

On US 40 near Strawberry Reservoir UT

Umpqua River Sunset

Roseburg OR

 

Not A Snappy Answer In Sight

TSG was mightily disappointed not to see his favorite MAD paperback amongst the titles for sale at the Pirate's Plunder Antique Mall Bookstall in Newport OR

"B" Things, The Sequel

 Beetle, more Beatles, Bernadette and a Batstache

Small Canine Raptor Defense Vest?

Rather unusual doggie duds seen @ Agate Beach Oregon

Foxhole Etiquette

WWII training posters on display at WAAAM 

(Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum)

Faces Of The 2020 Road Trip

 

You've Heard Of Cement Shoes?

Well, here's a pair just for you. These were used for a slightly less nefarious purpose than the usual trope. In this particular case, the cement-soled, twenty-pound-per shoe pair were used by Montana State Prison guards to put on potential escapees. 

 (Looks to us like they'd be pretty easy to untie and cast aside, but who knows...)

 

The Russell/Nesmith/TSG Confluence

Seen today at the Montana Historical Society's Charles M. Russell gallery,

 this painting brought to mind the Nez tune that it inspired.

All around the campfire stood seven dusty men
The cook was drinking applejack, the cattle were all penned
Someone must have cracked a wise one because the men began to grin
Their smiles shot out like sunbeams and made the night give in
Because

Laugh kills lonesome every single time
That's why Charlie Russell painted it
And why it looks so fine
Laugh kills lonesome every single time

   --Laugh Kills Lonesome by Michael Nesmith

Greetings From The Grand Prismatic Spring

 

Can't Rollerskate Here

Today's "B" Things

Beatles, bison warning sign, and a bullet in the bathroom 

 

 Collector's Corner Museum / Idaho Falls

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West Yellowstone MT

 

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Room 304 / Weston Hotel

This Is Trenchfoot, Sucker

At the surprisingly awesome Museum of Clean in Pocatello ID 

(we plan re-visit the museum in a future post)

Thing You Might See In A Walmart Parking Lot...

...and be mightily surprised:

A Lamborghini Diablo (they go for at least $250K...and that's a cheap one)

Perhaps the owner shops at Wallyworld to save money so he can afford the finer things in life?

Time For S'mores @ The Capitol Reef Resort

 

SMF's Words Of Wisdom For Road Trippers