Don’t have ten million to purchase this Marston, Van Pelt and Maybury manse? Find a yearly visit to the Pasadena Show Case House not your cup of tea? (and what is it with those inferior/interior designers and their stitched together, room by room, horror show?) I’ll tell you what…(abandoned to a soft market); this semi-feral, secret garden al fresco dinning opportunity! And thats where my Gourmiss friend comes in. After consulting with her “over the barricades” search team of one, a location was selected, maps drawn, a time chosen and several under employed criminal participants were organized into car pools.
So how does this event relate to our usual “Trash Tuesday” post? On several past Trash Tuesdays I’ve featured lawn furniture found curbside. Now that they’re all dipped and primed I found myself stymied over choosing colors. Always tasteful and color coordinated, the Gourmiss brought along her matching cutlery and dish ware. I arranged them together along with her napkin. I could call it an “ah hah” moment but that would be thinking within the box.
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Installment Eight of my series examining the “Secret, Feral and Concrete”
Feral/Secret Garden, Trespass
Post Title: “part of the (legal) appeal”
The mansion might have been designed by Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey. I’ll have to employ the services of Pasadena Adjacent’s Research Team in a follow up.
Whats next, dinner in prison, or a snack in the county jail. Maybe share a dessert with the probation officer? If you take a leaf blower with you you’ll always be covered, no one questions the yard man. Bon appetit.
I’m so glad you captured a moment. One of my favorite picnics ever. Susan is a bad good girl, or a good bad girl. D’s got a point.
D is funny and smart. I like the leaf blower idea. Do you think D has one? If so, he/she is invited to next picnic.
I have some great partners in crime.
Thanks for memorializing the event and for tying it all together with the pretty colors.
I think the real reason for the passing of Trash Tuesday is bcuz the economy has been so dark & cold that, unfortunately, many residents are left only to cling to their remaining valuables, which now includes trash.
I look 4ward to future episodes of Trespassing Tuesday!
I recognized this place immediately form AH’s post and I am quite miffed that I wasn’t invited. I would have worn my eponymously embroidered generic blue jumpsuit and brought the leaf blower. I love mine, especially during “pecan” season (cruel trees).
Some people delight in filming their crimes but they’re usually of a felonious nature. This is a kinder gentler version I think. You’re onto something here although, I would also love to see something along the lines of an afternoon rave. Or is that an oxymoron.
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Did everyone check out my title? Ever so clever don’t you think? follow the links for full disclosure.
D: Funny thing. There’s a group of artist in Australia who used to sabotage billboards (invert the message kind of thing). Outside of a ladder and some paint their only equipment was orange vests and a few traffic cones.
AH: a fellow practitioner of “fun and fear” my kind of girl (plus she can cook; and likes to)
Susan: D and me; we’re blood. His blood is in Peoria though.
I took that image of the bowels and had a print of them made at costco. It’s up on my studio wall. It’s the front runner in color choices
CP: Don’t retire Trash Tuesdays yet. I have a few in the pipes during this season of re-gifting.
PJ: You own a leaf blower? now there’s an idea for a wee video production. Of course there is always “America’s Dumbest Criminals” ….and they blog about they’re crimes
The gourmiss really ups the ante with her Martha Stewart ways. My instinct are usually to hate people like that, but she’s darn fabulous.
PA, Bowels versus bowls – pretty funny Freudian slip.
If you wanna bait me to your dog bowls, PA, you’re gonna have to fill them with some dog food: filet mignon, chicken & dumplings, soups, etc. Oh, and water of course: Evian is good enuf.
Here here, CO!
My leaf blower is part of a shop-vac. It’s awesome. Whenever I feel like things look grungy I blow all the leaves and dust around, voila! I feel mooch bettah.
I’m still amazed that you once staged a break-in…
It was really funny PJ, because at first a couple of people were very nervous, and we were all talking sotto voce. Then, after a couple bottles of wine, that caution got thrown in the wind. We kept trying to come up with a plausible story, should anyone catch us in the act. I think we decided to say we were thinking of buying the place!
Then there is, of course, that round plot of grass – a good spot for another variation on “Walking The Labyrinth”?
What a location! The movie’s as good as the book. That’s so rare.
Did love the title…and the color scheme…and the garden party.
How’s the research team coming along? I’m in an end-of-yr crunch so haven’t been googling much. PJ’s comment was funny.
This is a beautiful post !! Shots are nice..
those bowls look very colourful.
ah so nice ! I’m quite jealous that you get to go around digging in the trash, hiking and visiting odd sites. I love it and am living semi vicariously thru you !!
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Margaret: Susan would be hard to hate. You’d hate yourself for hating Susan
Susan: Does that mean I’m anal retentive or obsessive compulsive?
CO Dog: Your becoming too much work. Go bother Susan
PJ: thats what my vacuume cleaner does
Shanna: a Labyrinth sculpted out of astro-turf sounds rather conceptual. A way of “leaving the land alone” as Bruce might see it
Petrea: As Wikapedea will attest too, all my “wee video productions” are as good as the book
Tash: I thought it was pretty good. I don’t have a problem forcing my cleverness on people when if I don’t think they have appreciated my refined wit.
PA’s Research and Development team is kind of exhausted these days. They put in ten minutes, billed me then got distracted.
Bharat: Thanks. It’s been awhile since I visited you. Must do so.
Deepak: I hope they work out as lawn chair colors
Lisa: you betcha! and I live vicariously through you and Chris’s world travels
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