Rant alert…let me get this straight…the stables are closing because of odor complaints? Who was there first? Here in Central Illinois we have many existing farms, which, of course, are outlying; as the developers edge closer and closer to the farms, they build subdivisions on formerly farmed acres. The new residents carp about the farm smells, dust from cultivation and myriad other issues. What did they expect? You live next door to a farm! You had to notice when you looked at your dream-house “out in the country”. The poor farmers have it tough enough and suddenly they have neighbors complaining to the county board wanting to stop them from making a living. What often happens is that the land is sold to a developer by the aging farmer (who sees a chance to retire) because it’s worth more as a subdivision of cookie-cutter McMansions with big windows crammed onto tiny lots with views looking into the big windows of the McMansion 10 feet away. Sweet. Could be the same there, that the land is a gold mine waiting for the owner to cash in. Million dollar lots anyone?
D -Millions of dollars & people buys more more political influence than lesser numbers. Quantity wins & quality loses. Just look at our political campaigns.
PA, Permission? I hereby grant you, vested by the powers of the Dali Palma, permission to post on & resurrect the Palm Axis blog.
Now horses are vanishing? For development? Fuck that! Horse stables smell great, we had two horses around the time I was 12-16 and I rode a lot while living in rural San Diego county. Fuck those developers!
What other horse stable failed? did I miss something?
I love this – the blue hwys of Catalina! You can start your own “off the beaten path” Catalina.
(that’s from Blue Hwys travel book by Least Heat Moon, where he took the blue line roads on the map across the US)
I hope they at least preserve the acorns.
Looks like they buried an elephant, but missed one foot.
Huh?!
I’ve never been to Catalina. I wanna go to Catalina. I’ve been to Santa Cruz Island, and my great grandfather wrecked his ship on San Miguel, but no connections to Catalina. Yet.
About the stable: two excuses. One is that the stable is in the line of floods expected because of the recent fires on the island. The land owners say that the animals and attending cowpokes are in danger. This does not explain the desire to replace the stables with luxury facilities to attract a more upscale cliental. What, the folk in Dubai don’t have enough islands? The golfers are supposedly the poop complainers. I ask you this… when was the last time you saw a golf course that wasn’t lined by a equestrian trail? As I see it, another bogus argument.
D: It’s a sad day indeed when the McMansion makers start taking over the prairies. It seems that D. Gorton is touching on that in his more personal photography. Another issue at hand (at least in Southern California) is that the McMansion hosting communities don’t bother to create the proper infra structure to accommodate the flow of traffic. Ghastly (pun) lines of traffic get tangled on one lane freeway off ramps (with only one on/off ramp per McMansion zone).
CO: hows your blog going?
AH: you still can and it is and thats why I photographed it.
Mid-City G: I may have been referring to battles fought over the Arroyo Seco. Native verses non native plants. Walkers verses bikers..lots and lots of meetings. Where my complaint with the horse people comes in, is that they didn’t back us up “the walkers” when it came to changes brought forth in the master plan. As short as I can make it.. the city of South Pasadena leased the stables (in the Arroyo) out to someone who runs it for profit. Everything was upgraded and trainers brought in. You have the children and wives of wealth who ride. They own expensive horses that they won’t ride on the trails. They had in previous decades been the perfect excuse as in ” NO, you cannot take motorized vehicles up and down the flood channel, it will scare the horses” They’re presence kept change out. The good news is that “we the people” fought off stuff we didn’t want and got stuff we did want…. I fear because the stable is so very exclusive, it will one day loose it’s lease to competing interests. As I said, the end of an era.
Tash: I’m going to look up that book. It sounds very interesting (the blue lines… hmm) good news about Annies cat, meow!
Elaine: Did G Gramps live? Catalina is swell in February and the Hermosa is cheap. Palm stumps do resemble elephant stumps. I think the wealthy used to make them into foot rests. Poor Dumbo, the indignity of it.
Laurie: It’s behind the garden that I saw the fox. When you come down from the top of the mountain the trail leads to the back end of the gardens. Sorry.. Palm Axis is presently on Sabbatical but still hands down instructions from some unidentified island in the Caymans.
Everybody lived. He grabbed his charts and sextant, piled the crew into the lifeboat, and arrived, after a long night, in Santa Barbara. The ship was the Watson A. West. Thanks for asking.
PA, i was wundering if you’d ever ask that question.
Well, I just received a blog award the other day from another local blogger, adjacent to here. Coming from her I am very honored.
Thank you for your interest.
Come to think of it, I wanna reward your uniquely artistic blogs with my most prestigious blog award: The Dog Bone.
Rant alert…let me get this straight…the stables are closing because of odor complaints? Who was there first? Here in Central Illinois we have many existing farms, which, of course, are outlying; as the developers edge closer and closer to the farms, they build subdivisions on formerly farmed acres. The new residents carp about the farm smells, dust from cultivation and myriad other issues. What did they expect? You live next door to a farm! You had to notice when you looked at your dream-house “out in the country”. The poor farmers have it tough enough and suddenly they have neighbors complaining to the county board wanting to stop them from making a living. What often happens is that the land is sold to a developer by the aging farmer (who sees a chance to retire) because it’s worth more as a subdivision of cookie-cutter McMansions with big windows crammed onto tiny lots with views looking into the big windows of the McMansion 10 feet away. Sweet. Could be the same there, that the land is a gold mine waiting for the owner to cash in. Million dollar lots anyone?
D -Millions of dollars & people buys more more political influence than lesser numbers. Quantity wins & quality loses. Just look at our political campaigns.
PA, Permission? I hereby grant you, vested by the powers of the Dali Palma, permission to post on & resurrect the Palm Axis blog.
And, everyone said, “AMEN!”
Oh god, and after all that I was going to say the house was so ceeu-u-u-ute. Hah!
Now horses are vanishing? For development? Fuck that! Horse stables smell great, we had two horses around the time I was 12-16 and I rode a lot while living in rural San Diego county. Fuck those developers!
What other horse stable failed? did I miss something?
I love this – the blue hwys of Catalina! You can start your own “off the beaten path” Catalina.
(that’s from Blue Hwys travel book by Least Heat Moon, where he took the blue line roads on the map across the US)
I hope they at least preserve the acorns.
Looks like they buried an elephant, but missed one foot.
Huh?!
I’ve never been to Catalina. I wanna go to Catalina. I’ve been to Santa Cruz Island, and my great grandfather wrecked his ship on San Miguel, but no connections to Catalina. Yet.
I love the tile up at the white building on the top of that botanical garden.
And with that tangled mess of a sentence I realize, I truly MUST try to get more sleep.
Did someone mention Palm Axis? Post! Post!
Love these pictures, PA. Love your take on things even more.
About the stable: two excuses. One is that the stable is in the line of floods expected because of the recent fires on the island. The land owners say that the animals and attending cowpokes are in danger. This does not explain the desire to replace the stables with luxury facilities to attract a more upscale cliental. What, the folk in Dubai don’t have enough islands? The golfers are supposedly the poop complainers. I ask you this… when was the last time you saw a golf course that wasn’t lined by a equestrian trail? As I see it, another bogus argument.
D: It’s a sad day indeed when the McMansion makers start taking over the prairies. It seems that D. Gorton is touching on that in his more personal photography. Another issue at hand (at least in Southern California) is that the McMansion hosting communities don’t bother to create the proper infra structure to accommodate the flow of traffic. Ghastly (pun) lines of traffic get tangled on one lane freeway off ramps (with only one on/off ramp per McMansion zone).
CO: hows your blog going?
AH: you still can and it is and thats why I photographed it.
Mid-City G: I may have been referring to battles fought over the Arroyo Seco. Native verses non native plants. Walkers verses bikers..lots and lots of meetings. Where my complaint with the horse people comes in, is that they didn’t back us up “the walkers” when it came to changes brought forth in the master plan. As short as I can make it.. the city of South Pasadena leased the stables (in the Arroyo) out to someone who runs it for profit. Everything was upgraded and trainers brought in. You have the children and wives of wealth who ride. They own expensive horses that they won’t ride on the trails. They had in previous decades been the perfect excuse as in ” NO, you cannot take motorized vehicles up and down the flood channel, it will scare the horses” They’re presence kept change out. The good news is that “we the people” fought off stuff we didn’t want and got stuff we did want…. I fear because the stable is so very exclusive, it will one day loose it’s lease to competing interests. As I said, the end of an era.
Tash: I’m going to look up that book. It sounds very interesting (the blue lines… hmm) good news about Annies cat, meow!
Elaine: Did G Gramps live? Catalina is swell in February and the Hermosa is cheap. Palm stumps do resemble elephant stumps. I think the wealthy used to make them into foot rests. Poor Dumbo, the indignity of it.
Laurie: It’s behind the garden that I saw the fox. When you come down from the top of the mountain the trail leads to the back end of the gardens. Sorry.. Palm Axis is presently on Sabbatical but still hands down instructions from some unidentified island in the Caymans.
Everybody lived. He grabbed his charts and sextant, piled the crew into the lifeboat, and arrived, after a long night, in Santa Barbara. The ship was the Watson A. West. Thanks for asking.
PA, i was wundering if you’d ever ask that question.
Well, I just received a blog award the other day from another local blogger, adjacent to here. Coming from her I am very honored.
Thank you for your interest.
Come to think of it, I wanna reward your uniquely artistic blogs with my most prestigious blog award: The Dog Bone.
Congrats!!