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Outside of Pahrump, Seymor's ice cream remind's us to look around, beauty is everywhere. The whipped up soft serve ice cream castle touches the frothy lenticular couds passing over the Tonopah.

Sometimes the blown out billboards and run down trailers of the back side of our imagination have real beauty. I can imagine a family arriving at seemore's and the children excited, dad rumbling around for change. Imagine that you denizen's of fresh nown suburbia.

Leaving Las Vegas

If only for the evening, I drive by this sign every night and there are always crowds of people taking a photo there. Many of them have just been married and have piled out of a giant limosine. The city buildt a parking lot to reduce the number of folks getting killed while they stop.

Tbird on trop

When I was a boy there was a beautiful older woman who lived across the street from the park where I played. All I remember about her was her convertible 57 tbird and her blonde hair as she pulled put onto the street.


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....From the road

Park Avenue

Early morning at the Park Avenue condo project.
I'm struck by how, at sunrise, if you look at it just right it does feel a little like an east coast city. Las Vegas developments are all given themes to make you think of somewhere else.

Death Valley

We drove over to California the way some early settlers did, approaching out of Nevada to try and find shortcuts to the 49 gold rush. Most of them didn't make it across this barren desert and as the remaining wagon left they said "glad to make it out of that valley of death". The name stuck but on Thanksgiving weekend death valley was actually a pretty pleasant e from Las Vegas.

The old church steeple here has a prospector and his mule for a weathervane.

 

Cesar Pelli Tower Hotel

The other day a young intern, a high school student actually, doing cad drafting and estimates, passed me some recent aerial photos of the job site. The City Center project is the largest privately funded construction project in the US ever. It will be environmentally classified LEED silver and thats my job. Cool. A very few people know that I started the league of alternative builders in 1976, worked with Glenn Harcourt and the steeprock co operative in 2002. Now this. Fun. We are like ants, each doing a job that is part of the whole.

Hiking in Red Rocks

Red Rocks conservation area is about twenty minutes from the strip and is a great hiking area. Lots of climbers go there to boulkder as the rock cliffs are full of natural handholds. No doubt when the warm weather comes this will be a veritable oven ( although possibly cooler than the city) but right now its perfect. Another surprise about this part of the world, to find such a beautiful natural area so close to the city.