This cool street art painted on a long wall is visible from Highland Avenue at the Vision Culture Foundation in National City. When I recently walked by they appeared to be closed. I paused to take these photographs from the sidewalk just outside their gate entrance.
Here’s the Vision Culture Foundation website. The organization focuses on creative arts, and their center strives to empower and uplift youth and the community. They are a safe space that nurtures goals and dreams.
Check it out!
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This morning, before the East Village Block Party officially began, I walked down J Street just north of Petco Park and checked out a bunch of very cool lowrider cars. You can see those photographs by clicking here.
I returned to the block party in the mid-afternoon as it was in full swing!
The huge crowd wasn’t surprising. The San Diego Padres seem more popular than ever. The East Village Block Party celebrates the beginning of a promising 2025 baseball season.
Enjoy some fun photos!
Mariachi Internacional was performing on the stage at the east end of the block party. As you’ll see, they’d later walk down J Street playing their instruments with big smiles.
The pitching game must be tough. I didn’t see a single person succeed.
Lots of Padres fans had their pets along…
Cody Carter and Quartet were performing country music live on another block party stage.
A fun street performer makes passersby smile…
People (mostly kids) were trying their hand at climbing…
A street artist who said his name is James created this cool graffiti East Village art. A dog with a swag chain gets ready for a photo in front of it!
A sign explains how fans helped to replace a vandalized Padres mural in North Park. (You can see the mural that was replaced here.)
Here come the mariachis!
Will the Padres make the MLB Postseason again in 2025? We hope so!
Firefighters at San Diego Fire Station No. 4 give my camera a thumbs up!
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Sweetwater Park will be opening later this year beside San Diego Bay in Chula Vista. Everyone will be able to enjoy recreation, nature trails, a big playground and more in the 21-acre public park.
Sweetwater Park will stretch from Bayside Park (to be redeveloped into Harbor Park) and the new Gaylord Pacific Resort and Convention Center, north to Sweetwater Marsh and the Sun Outdoors San Diego Bay RV resort.
Back in October, I walked up the footpath that was already open along the east side of the park (which I now see is called Sweetwater Bicycle Path & Promenade). The park itself was fenced off at the time, and it still is today. But changes have occurred!
You can see how Sweetwater Park appeared late last year by checking out my old blog post here. Since then a number of new structures have been built, including landmark signs at either end, a tall, quite strange wishbone-shaped sculpture near the center of the park, and the big, awesome-looking playground!
Here I am walking south to north yesterday…
I took the following photographs over the construction fence…
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The Point Loma Association’s volunteer Mean Green Team must have been busy lately. Because look at all the beautiful, bright spring flowers planted along Shelter Island’s long Shoreline Park pathway!
I took this series of photographs today as I walked along the edge of Shelter Island beside San Diego Bay…
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Daylight Savings began last night, causing everyone in San Diego to spring forward one hour. Can you believe it? In less than two weeks Spring will have sprung!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Spring in Balboa Park!
Today was a warm sunny Sunday, with thousands of visitors enjoying the park’s museums, gardens, the weekly organ concert at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, and picnics on the grass.
I wandered about…
Cherry blossoms have added color to the Lower Garden at the Japanese Friendship Garden. Their big Cherry Blossom Festival is next weekend!The sun has been rising higher and higher, so rented umbrellas are a welcome thing during another free Sunday afternoon concert at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion.You can always find lots of bright color in the House of Mexico cottage.I noticed more and more flowers. These were blooming near the Balboa Park Club building.Kid runs down a bright green hill at Inspiration Point.What’s all this activity in front of Balboa Park’s Activity Center?It’s the epic annual Thursday Club Rummage Sale! That means it must be almost spring!Across Park Boulevard, a banner promotes the 33rd Annual Multi-Cultural Earth Day, coming Sunday, April 20th, at the WorldBeat Cultural Center.A perfect sunny day for car enthusiasts to show off their wheels in the park!It’s even greener than usual between the House of Hospitality and the Casa de Balboa.A fine Spring-like day in San Diego’s beautiful Balboa Park.Nature’s beauty in the Zoro Garden.Flowers are growing in the large beds in the Alcazar Garden!Enjoying life on the warm grass on Balboa Park’s West Mesa.
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You might enjoy checking out these photographs of three cool murals in South Oceanside. I saw them about a month ago when I walked up South Coast Highway.
The first celebrates “South O” with a view of the Oceanside Pier (to the north) at sunset. The mural is painted on a side of the building at 1821 S. Coast Highway. The artist is Taylor Gallegos (@taylorgallegosart).
The next mural is tagged #ThePearlofSouthO. It’s another Oceanside Pier at sunset–but more abstract. You can find this work of art at 1745 S. Coast Highway.
Finally, anyone traveling along South Coast Highway has undoubtedly observed the next mural at Sea Hive Marketplace. The address is 1555 S. Coast Highway. It states: Greetings from Oceanside USA!
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The San Diego Sheriff’s Museum once made its home in Old Town. Sadly, COVID-19 adversely affected its operation, and the museum closed its doors in 2020. Several times I had walked past the museum when it was still open, intending to pay a visit one day. I missed my opportunity.
Should you walk past the old location today (just south of the El Campo Santo cemetery on San Diego Avenue) you’ll find a few remnants of the San Diego Sheriff’s Museum still visible. I took these photographs from the sidewalk a couple weekends ago.
Fortunately, the San Diego Sheriff’s Museum maintains on online presence! Check out a virtual exhibit and more information on their website by clicking here.
The museum is working to find a new physical location. Their search for a new home is described here. If you’d like to help them out, you can provide a donation.
By the way, did you know there’s a San Diego Police Museum full of amazing exhibits? I visited it a couple years ago and posted photographs and descriptions here!
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In the darkness long before sunrise, downtown San Diego sleeps.
I often walk the city streets in the very early morning, when practically nobody is about. There are those times when I have to catch the day’s very first trolley. It can be a strange almost eerie experience. The stillness. The silence.
Here are some photographs I’ve taken during recent night walks.
There are sudden visions behind windows, on sidewalks, rising into the black sky.
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Until I read a plaque attached to the Carlsbad archway sign, I hadn’t realized the “new” sign was already ten years old.
Starting in the 1930s, people have passed under a Carlsbad sign while traveling through this coastal city. In 2015 the original sign was replaced with a replica–the one you see in my photographs.
The landmark sign straddles Carlsbad Boulevard at Carlsbad Village Drive.
During previous walks, I hadn’t noticed two bronze plaques describing the sign. The plaques are identical. They’re attached to the posts that support the sign on either side of Carlsbad Boulevard.
These photos were taken a week ago.
This sign is a gift from TaylorMade and the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the important role business has played in the City of Carlsbad’s success. It is a replica of the iconic Carlsbad sign installed in the ’30s.
DEDICATED ON JANUARY 8, 2015
(Leading sports equipment manufacturer TaylorMade has its corporate headquarters in Carlsbad.)
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Walk down to the beach in Carlsbad and you might find wisdom.
The walkway at Rue Des Chateaux Beach Access has a bench. Words shine on a plaque above the bench.
Mary Hoffman – In Loving Memory
Listen to the wind, it talks.
Listen to the silence, it speaks.
Listen to your heart, it knows.
The beach is reached in a few steps. The place is beloved by locals, said to offer amazing sunsets.
The Rue Des Chateaux Beach Entrance is located near 2445 Ocean Street, where the street curves inland away from the water. A sign by the sidewalk indicates the public beach entrance.
It’s a beautiful place your heart knows.
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