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Let your Life be a garden of peace and your smile be a bloom of flowers.
― Dinakar Phillip
I was driving home from an appointment and luckily had my camera in the back of the car. I saw some lovely echinaceas beside the road so stopped and ran across the street to capture their beauty before the heat shrivelled them up.
This photo was taken in Petersen Rock Garden north of Bend in Central Oregon. It's a very unique and interesting place to see!
On 4 acres of farmland, a Danish immigrant named Rasmus Petersen spent the last 17 years of his life building an intricate rock garden of immense scale that includes numerous miniature churches, castles and capitols, all using local volcanic rocks and shells. Several pieces he built especially to pay tribute to his adoptive home of America.
Petersen died in 1952 and his garden has been a popular roadside attraction ever since. Several peacocks roam the garden and I had a really enjoyable visit there. Let's celebrate the freedom to be eccentric!
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Part of an old auto and truck graveyard south of Tallahassee, Florida. The signs read Rust In Peace.
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The sleds are put away, and the children are already thinking ahead to carefree summer days...the old swimming hole, fishing with Grandpa, looking for animals in the clouds....
“That’s Miss Pearl,” said her owner, pointing to the old truck. He and his wife are also the owners of a fantastic roadside attraction known as Gay Parita. It’s right on Route 66 in Paris Springs, Missouri, and is a fantastic and friendly place to visit!
A view of the front of this mini empire. It includes a store, a tour of the house in the rock, a tiny zoo, and a gift shop... and a bust of FDR carved into the rock... so much going on here (note the jeep on top of the rock)!
Paulhenge was built in 2015 by Paul Morris. Like Stonehenge, it is aligned to track sun times of equinoxes and solstices.
Versailles, IN
along the Lincoln Highway, where Rt. 30 and 218 N meet, Benton County, Iowa
Built by Joseph Young in 1931, this building included a cafe and cabins. By the 1990's it had closed and was in major disrepair. Volunteers restored it, built displays and offered a limited lunch menu.
At this point I worry about it's fate. It now sits right on a 65 mph divided highway, right where a ramp to 218N is, and has no turn off into it. One does not appear to be planned and it is no longer accessible. I looked in the windows; the interior is immaculate.
In 2007 the Youngville building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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I saw this interesting roadside attraction today and couldn't believe all the advertising signs I'd seen in my youth and some more recent. Just not too sure about the gas prices!
October 4, 2011 . . 1:25 pm
The Gemini Giant is a landmark statue on RT 66.
Erected in 1965, it stands outside the Launching Pad
Restaurant . . The 438 lb, 30 foot tall statue is one
of many giant "Muffler Men" that were placed as
advertising icons, roadside attractions, or for decorative
purposes, with the first one appearing in 1962 . . While
the fiberglass figures are no longer manufactured,
approximately 180 "Muffler Men" still exist throughout
the United States.
Wilmington, Illinois Population: 5,624
. . . Thank you!
A very long day, cross winds blowing snow. Average temperature today about 8 degrees Fahrenheit. Saw one truck pulling doubles in the medium and more than six personal vehicles in the medium or ditch. My heavy load and careful driving handled it fine, just very tiring.
Not a day for photography, but seeing this over on the Westbound side of I-90, I had to pull over and take a few pictures.
Made it into Wisconsin, on to Michigan tomorrow.
I did a Google search and came up with the following info about this unusual sculpture.
www.atlasobscura.com/places/skeleton-man-walking-skeleton...
Here's a link to and picture I took but of the whole sculpture.
One of my many faults is focusing on where I'm going and not pulling over when I see something nice, 'I'll get it on the way back' is my biggest excuse. Alvin Harp has taught me that there is much to be seen right beside us. This tributary to the White River near FSR 73 was a pull over dang it moment. The snow had just started and the tangled mess of winter wonderland begged to be photographed. :-)
A setting quarter moon made the perfect lighting conditions for photographing stars over the old Palouse painted bus.
Picture taken at “Hole-n-The Rock” roadside attraction near Moab, Photo is a few years old but never posted before.
The Lititz Train Station serves as the entrance to the seven acre Lititz Springs Park.
No longer an operating station, it now functions as the Lititz Welcome Center.
The quaint building is a replica of the original 1884 Lititz Passenger Depot & Express Station.
Moonbeam's roadside-attraction Flying Saucer located off of Highway 11 North in the Village of Moonbeam in the Township of Moonbeam in the District of Cochrane in Northeastern Ontario Canada
To modern ears this sounds suspiciously extraterrestrial, though some people assert the pioneers were probably seeing the Northern Lights. The alien rumors were bolstered when in the 1960s and ’70s there was a wave of UFO sightings in the area, coupled with a series of mysterious crop circles. Regardless of the truth, the name stuck, and Moonbeam has fully adopted the alien as its mascot.
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A mile-long entrance avenue lined with live oaks at Wormsloe Plantation Historic Site in Savannah, Georgia
The most scenic road in Utah. 123-mile state highway designated an All-American Road located in Garfield County and Wayne County, Utah.