Parasailing

Parasailing, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

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Mazatlán, México

Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens

Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

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Let's take a walk on the "wildside".

1946 Plymouth

1946 Plymouth, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

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Mar del Plata, Argentina

Abacus

Abacus, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

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"Lee Chong's station in the grocery was behind the cigar counter. The cash register was then on his left and the abacus on his right." - John Steinbeck, in "Cannery Row"

Adding up luck for the new year...

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Cabo San Lucas Marina

Cabo San Lucas Marina, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

" '...Let us go,' we said, 'into the Sea of Cortez, realizing that we become forever a part of it; that our rubber boots slogging through a flat of eel-grass, that the rocks we turn over in a tide pool, make us truly and permanently a factor in the ecology of the region. We shall take something away from it, but we shall leave something too.' And if we seem a small factor in a huge pattern, nevertheless it is of relative importance. We take a tiny colony of soft corals from a rock in a little water world. And that isn't terribly important to the tide pool. Fifty miles away the Japanese shrimp boats are dredging with overlapping scoops, bringing up tons of shrimps, rapidly destroying the species so that it may never come back, and with the species destroying the ecological balance of the whole region. That isn't very important in the world. And thousands of miles away the great bombs are falling and the stars are not moved thereby. None of it is important or all of it is."
John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)

Cannery Row

Cannery Row, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

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"In a moment of local love Dora named her place the Bear Flag Restaurant and the stories are many of people who have gone in for a sandwich." - John Steinbeck, in "Cannery Row"