Artificial lakes in Arizona offer residents the opportunity to go boating right in the middle of the desert. On hot days, though, it smells a bit funny here, or is that just the new aroma of Scottsdale?
Neighborhood Horses
Horse properties around the corner from us break up the monotony of the cookie-cutter homes so prevalent in Phoenix, Arizona.
Mini Pile-up
What an ugly way to start the day – coffee and crashing. Four cars play pile-up and fortunately, no one was hurt. A half-mile further down the road, we came across another fender bender. You can bet we were extra careful the remainder of the drive.
Busy on the Phone
Too busy talking on the phone to worry about the photo of the day, so I photographed the phone.
Mother’s Day
Phoenix, Arizona, has typically taken a dim view of graffiti and has been quick to dispatch unseen workers who remove the tags before most people recognize they have shown up. Recently though, more and more graffiti is hanging on. Today, we saw this tag dedicated to Moms on Mother’s Day.
Dodge
My mother, Caroline, and I visited the impound yard where my mother’s crushed Lincoln was towed. My mom could not believe what she saw.
Near my mom’s car were a couple of old classics rotting under the sun and weather. One that caught my eye was this yellow 1929 Dodge Brothers car with its original wood-spoked wheels and a rumble seat. The grill logo caught both Caroline’s and my attention, as we hadn’t previously seen a Dodge logo with a Star of David.
Upon further research, it turns out that no one really knows why the logo was what it was back then. The two brothers went to their graves without anyone asking what it meant or what inspired it. Looking up the history of the Dodge logo I did learn that the Chevy logo was a bowtie copied from a hotel room wallpaper, although the wife of founder W.C. Durant denied his story and claimed he picked up the idea from a newspaper advertisement.