There’s a park I go by on my way to work every day. For a week or more, a construction truck has been sitting in the parking lot. There’s something a little strange about it, though, and I finally had to pull over and take a picture.
And Chefguy, here’s one for you!
In a large yard I sometimes drive by, there are two horses and a small, long-haired goat. One of the horses is black and the other is pure white. The goat is also pure white. Every time I drive by, the white goat is always standing in the shadow of the white horse. If it’s late afternoon and the sun is sinking in the sky, the goat will be standing several yards away, in the shadow of the horse’s body. If it’s midday and the sun is directly overhead, the goat will be standing right underneath the horse. They’re like this every time I drive by and it’s always the white horse, never the black.
You’ve got a tagger that goes by “Bush?”
I guess I can see how the man might have “street cred” with creepy little vandal gangsters.
They are. My dog loves it, and gets an expression of sheer exstasy on her face that’s both comical and touching at the same time. (I’ve always wondered if it’s the rush of thousands of different smells at once or the sensation of speed that they love so much?)
Unfortunately for my dogs, I’m paranoid and won’t let them stick their heads out a car window for fear of flying debris. The only time they get to do it is when we’re riding in a pickup truck and I can open the back-center window.
I’d also like to get a photo of her finding an interesting smell in the backyard. She stops stick-still, her ears perked, and her head tilted quizzically. She sniffs the spot, pauses to think about it, then sniffs again, sometimes “chuffing” which I assume is a way of passing the air over deeper scent receptors. If it’s a really good stink, she falls over and rubs her cheeks and jawbones in the area, rolling around to spread it onto the back of her neck. During this, she has a look of intense concentration on her face which is just priceless, followed by a look of orgasmic joy as she wiggles her body over the spot.
Hey! As I was reading the thread I was thinking that I’d mention THAT exact view! I see it everyday on the way home from work.
the giant bug near I95 in Providence, RI, especially when it’s sporting reindeer horns decked with lights and a shiny red nose for xmas …
Somebody once asked a question that I’ve never heard an answer for: why is it that dogs live to ride with their head out the window, but get really annoyed when you blow in their face?
Because your breath stinks.
No, I’m not insulting you. I’m just pointing out that dogs can smell everything you’ve eaten that day on your breath, and probably can get a pretty good overview of your general dental hygiene as well. They can even detect fluctuations in your blood sugar by smelling your breath.
I imagine that having that many different smells forced up your nose has to be somewhat of an unpleasant experience, even for creatures who like stinky stuff. It may be that air forced up their noses hits their scent receptors in different ways, too.
In Palos Verdes, if you’re driving south on Palos Verdes Blvd, it splits off into Palos Verdes Drive West and Palos Verdes Drive North. It’s one of the most confusing intersections I’ve ever seen. But in any case, if you want to go to PV Drive North, you get in the left lane, which has a left arrow painted on it. But then once you’re there, you go straight, because if you turned left, you would basically end up making a U-turn. So there’s a no-left turn sign, and I think you could capture the sign and the painted arrow in the same shot if you were clever. Basically, it says, “Turn left. Just make sure you don’t actually turn left.”
Google Earth users, it’s somewhere around 33,48,06N 118,23,17W if you want to try to see what I’m talking about.