Randy Fritz’s four day Los Angeles turnshoe class is nearing completion. Kelly will blog about this later in the week. In the meantime here’s one of the student’s new, not quite complete, shoes.
Picture Sundays
Picture Sundays: Buck
Picture Sundays: The Unintentionally Groovy Cover of the High Desert Corridor Envionmental Impact Report
Damien Newton of Streetsblog Los Angeles has caused the cover of an obscure bureaucratic document to go viral in our local cycling community. And with good reason. Some genius at Caltrans designed a cover by tossing clip art and 80s graphics into a Vitamix. Speculation is that the designer might be named Brad (note Brad the turtle chasing a chipmunk in the upper right corner).
Every time I look at it I see something new: psychedelic condors riding bicycles, butterflies transformed by contact with solar panels and what might be a portal to another dimension just to the right of the project i.d. number.
Yard Panther
Phoebe, our heart-challenged kitty, is still doing really well, against all odds. I almost don’t want to say anything to jinx it. She’s glossy and sturdy and full of beans. Today we celebrate with a picture of her.
Picture Sundays: One Big Pumpkin
One of the runners up in the National Heirloom Exposition’s giant pumpkin contest.