Found in Disneyworld….

I always think quirky houses are fun and different… I know my daughter would love to live here!

I also got a nice email from a master gingerbread-house maker and he said he was going to use this house and my previous picture of it for a model for his upcoming holiday creation…. so I will post a link here when it is done!

The mother is a prickly one…

This looks like it was found in some remote area of Southeast Asia, but it was actually found in Disneyworld. It reminds me of Mark Twain’s sensational statement in Innocents Abroad when he saw all the replicas of the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper and said they were much better than the originals.

Here is a little Americana… when you run out of rooms to eat fast food in, the roof will always do nicely!

I was about to take down the top but I was afraid of another swell rolling in!

The quality of neon is not strained… Which reminds me I was involved in a charades game a few months ago at a retreat and one of the clues I gave the other team to perform was “The quality of mercy is not strained”, and they got it! Sometimes the hardest charades clues turn out to be the easiest to get… what a strange game that is…

Below that Tomorrow Land shot, I put another one of my favorite pictures from Disney around dusk…

Complete with deadly alien shadows…

This is the famous Breakers hotel in Palm Beach. I have a good friend and partner there that lets me borrow his Jag whenever I come into town, so it was better than the old economy mid-size from Avis that I was used to!

It’s a cute little house here eh?

I guess these are endangered. I dunno… seems strange to say endangered when everything is endangered. I like to say they are losing the Darwin race, but people that are really into endangered stuff don’t like to hear that.

The lounge area of the Breakers in Palm Beach has some very cool light-based sculptures. I’ve never seen anything quite like them. The hotel staff eyed me suspiciously as I went around with my tripod to get pictures. They kept looking at one another with a "I’m sure he got permission to do that" kinda look…

A few days ago I posted a picture of the storm at the airport here in Palm Beach. I was contemplating flying into the heart of the storm instead of sitting in a room full of attorneys for the day. Today I chose the latter and it was about as much fun as it sounds. It was my first time through this particular experience and it wasn’t what I would call a rockin’ good time. I wish I could have said, “Your honor, the witness (me) is being badgered” but there was no judge, just a bunch of lawyers quoting rules and regulations I’ve never heard of. I think, technically, lawyers have formed a sovereign nation who have created a set of rules that abstract them and all behavior from regular society. That’s another pseudo-sociological concept I am working on, but is a rather empty thing to really think about unless you are on a break in one of those badgering-sessions.

After the session, I headed out to get some pictures around Palm Beach. I twisted my ankle in an effort to get this one… that dock is even more uneven than it looks!

This always causes mild panic that I will be delayed in the airport. This was taken in Palm Beach, where I will be for a few days to meet with some attorneys. I don’t know if I would rather be in a plane in that storm or in a room full of attorneys… tough choice, really.

I am not sure who is in charge of decorating these places, but they are great with fonts and textures. If anyone knows, let me know so maybe i can hire them for the game company!

Here is another shot from later in the fireworks show at Disneyworld.