Play with LEGO bricks at Legoland

#DidYouKnow: You can play with LEGO bricks in Legoland 😉   Legoland is not an all-inspiration-and-no-room-for-practice, kind of a place. There are Lego bricks all over the park and you…

Monday Mural: Found in Mill Valley

On a surf shop in Mill Valley, CA is a fish-shaped mural; a very colourful one at that. I’m wondering if this piece of art is a work by  Zio…

A (lego) land of unlimited creative inspiration

It was December and the schools had closed for Christmas and New Year. That meant it was time for a trip and since the previous trip was to a National…

A balcony with a Venetian View

A few years back, there was a time when we needed to break from the daily grind and we made a quick weekend trip to the Central Coast of California.…

Found: Capitola mural in Capitola

Capitola in California’s Central Coast– in Santa Cruz county to be exact — has a lot of street art all over town. Having shown you some art on a doorway,…

The hills are alive again

East of San Francisco Bay Area in California lies a mountain range known for its considerably low hills that are dry in the summer but turn green when winter rains…

Our World: Point Reyes Beach North

It’s winter here, the kind that is true to Northern California,with low temperatures and snow on the mountain ranges and foothills, and of course rain. This year winter seems to…

MondayMural: Found on utility boxes

Utility Box Artwork: For this week’s Monday Mural, I have a couple utility box artwork from the roadsides of Livermore and San Luis Obispo. Both are drive-by shots. The first…

Carmel: A Storybook Town on the California Coast

Carmel is a seaside town in California that looks like an English village. Also called Carmel-by-the-sea, it is home to artists, poets, authors, musicians..

Vistas from California’s ‘Devil Mountain’

 Several Springs ago, we had driven to the top of Mt. Hamilton and seen Santa Clara Valley from a height of 4,200 odd feet. Then last Fall, in what was…