Another journey up and down the right bank, with over 3,800 miles of road trip fun! As always, I am drawn to quirky, folk art installations, as well as Christian ones, almost all by individuals without formal training – which is sometimes called Outsider Art. If you get off the […]
America is torn. I recently drove the East Coast to get a pulse of the nation recently ravaged by governmental diktats, media distortions, and rioters coddled by a major party. The further north I drove, the darker the journey became, into a northeast traumatized by the virus and disastrous state […]
This is the second post on Howard Finster’s amazing Paradise Garden. Inspired to start building in the 1960’s, Howard explained his motivation this way: “…it just come to me that the world started with a beautiful garden, so why not let it end with a beautiful garden?” Please see the […]
At the end of last year, my brothers were thinking of prematurely selling Mom’s home of three decades in Santa Fe. What could I do? I decided to drive out to see her colonial home, perhaps for the last time, and take an inventory of her many paintings. But what […]
Sometimes I write in colors and forms. Here is a virtual factory tour from Chocolate World, Hershey, PA. Each choco-loco car was spinning madly much of the time, lending to the dizzy excitement. I so enjoyed being Charlie (less Willie Wonka) that I took the tour twice. [please hover over […]
I love roadside attractions built by roadside people. Usually it is an obsession, fueled by many years of patient work, to built these temples to quirkiness. Shangri-La Stone Village, in Prospect Hill, NC, is one such place. The retired tobacco farmer Henry L. Warren began his quest in 1968, using […]
