Halloween in Balboa Park makes for a really great day!
Look at all the fun pics I captured while randomly wandering around!
Buzz Lightyear emerged on Halloween from the Balboa Park Administration Building. To infinity and beyond!There’s a gremlin inside the Museum of Us! And I thought their Egyptian mummies were disturbing!Looks like the Balboa Park Carousel has been bewitched again.A spooky photo op backdrop in Spanish Village Art Center.Lots of Halloween stuff inside the Senior Lounge.Eek! Who’s this strange character haunting the Senior Lounge?The San Diego Automotive Museum is home to a friendly ghost.A fun Halloween costume exhibit inside the Comic-Con Museum.A spooky jack-o’-scarecrow grins at me in the Comic-Con Museum. I hope a superhero is nearby.Yes, one can find Cheetos inside the Balboa Park Visitors Center.
Not to be overlooked, I also found some fun Día de los Muertos stuff…
Getting ready for a Día de los Muertos event this weekend at the Old Globe.A balloon sugar skull outside the Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater!
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It’s late October. Early mornings and late evenings in San Diego have become chilly.
Walking through Balboa Park this afternoon, I noticed certain preparations are already underway for the Holiday Season!
The Old Globe’s annual “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” Tree is going up in their outdoor Copley Plaza. I’m told the tree’s assembly began yesterday. In addition, nearby banners are being replaced and holiday lights are being strung.
The 20th annual Globe Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony will take place on Sunday, November 9 at 6:00 p.m.
Meanwhile, in the center of the Botanical Building, a very beautiful harvest display full of Autumn color and pumpkins has been erected by the City of San Diego Parks and Recreation Department.
Thanksgiving will be here before we know it!
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I found two new murals in El Cajon’s very cool Arts Alley!
The Arts Alley is located in downtown El Cajon north of Main Street, between Magnolia Avenue and Sulzfeld Way. I visited the colorful alley in 2020 and 2022. See those photographs here and here.
Look what I discovered during yesterday’s walk!
ART HEALS
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Halloween is destined to arrive in San Diego in merely two weeks!
Are you ready to encounter spooky ghosts, crafty witches, thirsty vampires and undead zombies? Have you stocked up on candy?
Looking around, it seems the entire city is preparing for Halloween. Ominous signs are everywhere. You see omens of the approaching day in shop windows, front yards, public spaces…
For the past couple weeks I’ve been photographing Halloween stuff that I’ve encountered.
Can you identify a few of the places where I took these photos?
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A few weeks ago, on a late summer San Diego day, I enjoyed a sunny walk around part of Mission Bay.
From a point near Riviera Beach at Moorland Drive, I proceeded counterclockwise along the Bayside Walk to San Rafael Place. This northwest part of Mission Bay is called Sail Bay, and you can see why.
Sailboats, bicycles, volleyball, families playing or lounging on the sand, joggers, people enjoying a beautiful, relaxing day… Even yoga on paddleboards!
This is San Diego at its best!
Enjoy photographs that I took as I walked along…
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These unifying words–in English and Spanish–are suspended in the sky above San Ysidro.
During my last walk up San Ysidro’s Cultural Corridor, I noticed this public art for the first time. According to a plaque, the painted steel sculpture is dated 2023. It’s by artist Janelle Iglesias, who lives in San Diego. It was commissioned for the residents of San Diego by the Commission for Arts and Culture.
Where is the Cultural Corridor you might ask?
San Ysidro’s alley-like Cultural Corridor extends north along Cypress Drive from San Ysidro Boulevard to the trolley tracks near the Beyer Avenue station. Walk up it and you’ll see many colorful murals.
At the north end you’ll pass under these words. They remind us that we all live under the same life-giving sun.
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Hundreds of people came together at NTC Park in Liberty Station today to fight Alzheimer’s disease. The event was organized by the Alzheimer’s Association.
I arrived as the 2025 Walk to End Alzheimer’s was coming to an end, but I’m going to share a few photos and hope you feel inspired to make a donation to this important cause. If through medical research we could finally put an end to Alzheimer’s, that would benefit literally millions of lives.
Click here to make a donation. (If that special event webpage goes away, you can also click here for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s main page. Look for the donation button.)
Consider forming your own team and walking next time!
A lot of love in these photos…
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The 19th Annual Walk in Remembrance with Hope will be held in San Diego tomorrow morning, Sunday, September 14, 2025.
The Walk in Remembrance with Hope celebrates the lives of loved ones lost to suicide. It also raises awareness about suicide prevention.
The walkers and others will gather in Balboa Park on the grass near Sixth Avenue, south of Laurel Street. Registration begins at 7 am.
I met the good people setting up for the event this afternoon. The Walk in Remembrance with Hope is organized by Survivors of Suicide Loss. See their website here.
All ages, friends, family and pets are welcome to join! Start a team and invite your friends & family, or walk individually.
The event is a helpful resource fair, too, with vendor booths and more.
Even if you’ve never been personally affected by the tragedy of suicide, you can still help out these good people with a donation. Make your donation here.
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The Savannah Bananas have arrived in San Diego. They will be playing their wacky Banana Ball today and tomorrow at Petco Park. I’m told the wildly popular event is sold out!
A crew was setting up a row of canopies north of Petco Park’s Gallagher Square, where there will be fun activities for fans. I see there will be loads of yellow Savannah Banana merchandise for sale.
I happened to walk this morning down J Street. I took these photos. Lots of smiles!
So, what, you wonder is Banana Ball and how is it different than baseball? Check out the website here.
Among a bunch of strange rules are: batters can steal first base, batters are out if a fan catches a foul ball in the stands, no walks are allowed, no bunts are allowed, there’s a two hour time limit . . . and other peculiar, exciting stuff.
I hear players at Savannah Banana games do choreographed dances and engage in trick plays.
The Savannah Bananas are sort of like the Harlem Globetrotters–but baseball.
Get ready to Go Bananas!
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There’s a surprising outdoor art gallery in an alley in San Diego’s Barrio Logan neighborhood. It’s located on the side of the building at 915 S. 26th Street, currently home of Hard Dresser Salon.
Quite unexpectedly, I happened upon this weather-beaten art gallery about a week ago during a long walk.
A very faded graphic to one side of the framed artworks indicates Gold Leaf Project.
According to this website: The premise behind the Gold Leaf Project is that artists currently showing also install and display artwork on the streets of San Diego / Tijuana framed by these Rococo style gold-leaf frames. The point is to literally take art out of the gallery, but still display it as such in the context of the streets.
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