Red Hand Means Stop
Red Hand Means Stop, originally uploaded by cleopatra69.Sometimes you'll find art in the most unexpected places. This one I found at a construction site in City Heights, California.

Maria
Maria, originally uploaded by cleopatra69.A mural painted on a corrugated garage door, downtown San Diego. One of my favorite things to do is just stroll the streets of my city, find scenes like this, and snap away with my camera.

Stars & Stripes
Stars & Stripes, originally uploaded by cleopatra69.For a short time I lived aboard a sailboat, although not one as large as this. And it was moored in a marina for most of the time.

You, the Sea and Me - A Poem by Patty Mooney
I have put out to seawith you in a 45-foot sloop.It's 21 days before we sight otherhumans on a ship that passes at dusk. Four hours on watch and four hours off,you and I share the helm but not the berth. When you sleep I count the floating containersshrugged off and left to bob like geometric icebergs,a Pacific conundrum.Hit one and we're finished. My eyes are filled with horizonand the ghosts of those phantomcrates as you rock in the arms of your motherocean,when a lightsurfaces, advancing upon us.Panicked, I rouse you, certain it issome locomotive cruiser, bound to chopour hull clea

Quotes About Mountain Biking - Collected by Bill Strickland
Cavorting after Rockhopper South Mountain Bike Race, Big Bear Lakes, California, 1987