Just another random group of people who ask for a picture, yet never care to see the result…
So I moved to California, but it’s just a state of mind It turns out everywhere you go, you take yourself, that’s not a lie. – Lana Del Rey“Catch a wave and take in the sweetness Think about it, the darkness, the deepness.” – Lana Del ReyThis is life…peace in the quiet Happiness is the sky. – Lana Del Rey
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ― Alfred Lord TennysonHang in there, the train’s comin’
Christo Rey. Est. 1938
On Children by Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” Frank Lloyd WrightOld Fire Station 6. Est. 1915. Now the Firehouse Museum. Located in Little Italy.
Tin Roof Bar housed in the historic Carriage Works building, est. 1890.
Scripps Building, est. 1907.
Built in 1914, a designated historic site. Now houses 72 homeless veterans, at-risk youth, and ex-cons. Built in 1913 and houses the Gaslamp Plaza Suites.
Bay View Hotel, a.k.a. The Palms Hotel, est. 1869, (originally 25-rooms, 2-stories)
Bay View Hotel, 1889, after it had been expanded to 150 rooms and given a Victorian makeover. Note the two towers that were lost in a fire in the early 1900s. — Shapery Enterprises
Est. 1888This might be my favorite house in San Diego. I’ve featured it in a previous blog post. Can’t stop taking pictures of it. Yellow for bright and happy, flowers for promise, something Norman Rockwellian…