Ah sweet Venice. Whoops! Wrong one.

I had yet to visit the famed walkway of Venice Beach California. Saturday was to be that day. After hitting up the Autry Museum, it was down to the beach. I found a place to park the Prius just around the corner from the courts and muscle beach and fed the machine. The strip is a long stretch of street shops, weed peddlers (medicinal), cheap chinese crap, street performers, homeless folks chilling, odd food places and tourists. I hung at the courts to watch some basketball, watched a couple street performers and marched along with a drum section. i ended up dropping into a spot by the car that was a wine and tapas bar. i talked to the owners a bit, had a couple Venice Beach Brewery beers, a Mojito and a margherita flatbread. All in all it was pretty good. Venice isn't the nicest beach by a long shot, but it was cool to visit. I don't know if I'll go back myself, but if someone comes through that wants to see it, i'll take em. I'm more a Malibu guy but if i want some carnival fun, Santa Monica on the pier seems like a funner place to be. 

yep. $40 to get a weed card.

Where's Woody?! This white man definitely can't jump.

Street performance. 

The strip

More of the strip

cheesy beach clothes

drum line

I hit up Outdoor World on the way home. 

Didn't buy anything but looked for awhile.

I love mexican Coke. Sugar instead of HFCS and glass bottles. Reminds me of being a kid. It just tastes better. 

Git along little doggy. Gitty up. You git.

Recently on an episode of 'American Rifleman' television, they visited a Colt collection in LA at the Autry Western Heritage Museum. I decided I'd like to check it out. As luck would have it, I had the weekend off and headed to LA to do some sight seeing. The first stop was to the museum. It is right across the street from the Griffith park zoo and on saturdays, it hosts a farmers market, a very eclectic one including some fine gourmet food vendors.  I perused the market before hitting the museum afraid to buy anything since it would sit in my hot ass car all day long. 

Pierogi, yummy potato loving.

Pork belly, danny like.

sushi freshies

crepes!!

Mexican I expect! Comida.

The El Salvies showed up.

Look at those menu boards. Gourmet grilled cheese. 

an honest to goodness gourmet food truck!

Say it with me, cheese toastie!! it's catching on down here. Cheese toastie.

Hoytie Toytie menu boards. I like. Inventive. Already stole this idea.

Shave Ice. Yes sir. 

Tired of walking. Get a rub. 

Is there another kind??!!

international flavor. Good too. Lots of samples.

The usual, fruit and veg

None of those unhappy cows round these parts. 

Happy cows come from California.

Kimchee anyone

more fruit and veg

Some damn fine cakes. I tried the pineapple upside down. Scrumptious.

Why yes, that does say Mimosa Bar, it's sunday morning somewhere.

LA mural

the museum rotunda, they had some concert later that night

Mommas don't let your baby's grow up to be cowboys. Don't let em pick guitars and drive in old trucks. Make em be doctors and lawyers and such.

Such a cute squirrel and only $750 to take home.

Sitting Bulls pipe and tomahawk.

Basque sheepherder, where cowboying got its start.

native likenesses used to sell things. like a smoke shop wooden indian. 

painting of bear being dispatched by vaqueros, early Spanish cowboys. They brought the horse culture to North America.

go fer your gun gringo

small sculptures

Frederic Remington painting

and sculpture. I love his sculptures.

Hollywood Cowboys- lots of glitz, glamour and green on the silver screen. 

I drove through the Ponderosa on my way to J Kats place a couple weekends ago and didn't even know it. Here house is where the big pine is under the 't' in 'the'.

The Lone Ranger, Hi Yo Silver. the original werewolf killer, nothing but silver bullets for this guy.

Look at those conchos

Anyone recognize this sheriff?

Native singer statue on the overlook

End of the Trail. While this was true of the old ways of living, there are still hundreds of thousands of Native Americans living from sea to shining sea in the U.S. and fighting everyday to improve their lives and the lives of the next seven generations of their people, not just their own children. Can I say the same thing about us?!!