I love Hippie Buses

To give you a laugh or make you feel better I had to look up the plural of bus. It just didn't look right....buses...it still doesn't but I am just a follower, kinda.
Anyway, I have spotted sooo many great hippie buses but only just recently started photographing them. This is one happy vehicle. Spotted on Alberta Street.

The best Hippie Bus I ever did see was in Grants Pass Oregon. It was.... painted in earth tones and the people from it were so unreal. They looked like a combination of Renaissance times and the Hobbit. I am serious. There was nothing costumey about them. I don't mean to be jokey in any way. I had no camera back then and not the guts either to approach them. I still kick myself for not going up to them to say hello and tell them what magic they were to me.

Found

I was driving the kids to the park and was at a stop and I spied this art on a post. Luckily I had my camera so I shot it from the car. It's just down the street from my house and I wonder if it is to be taken or what?? It gives me the idea to leave nailed voodoos up all over Portland :D It'll take a little disipline, like making the time to make extras but I should do it. I mean, if I saw a surprise voodoo nailed to a pole it would completely thrill me to tears :D But I'll write a TAKE ME note.
K, someone check on me in a few weeks to make sure I'm not just talking to talk.

Primitive

I love my latest dolls, I do, like my own kids, but I feel like I am getting away from junky primitive dirty ratty thready loose ends, which I feel is home.

I feel inspired to make something really raggedy.

But I have a movie to see tonight, but let's hope I can keep that dirty thought :D

Truman and Monster Lucia

Truman is a sweet boy clown. I am not a fan of scary clowns, but a creepier one may be coming for those who are.
And about Monster Lucia....
Monster Lucia had to spend a month with her Aunt. Bored silly describes it all. So when she was given her Aunt's old paperdolls to play with her little monster mind quickly went to work and she gave them all human faces and choreographed a bloodstained melodrama.

Sofia

Sofia's papa was the Extraordinary Tattooed Man and her mama was the Beautiful And Exotic Tightrope Walker. Sofia had known magic all of her days and would sometimes paint these scenes in her notebooks.

These are inspiring to me

I love Mississippi Ave. I took all these yesterday.

Mississippi Ave

Man, I tell you, this is my second day of a reallllllly slow computer and it is enough to bring forth the mother of all swear words.
Anyway....
Went to Mississippi Ave. today, I have never been and I loved it! I have never been to the shop Flutter and still haven't really because it was closed....but I got a few shots through the glass. I have to go back!! And next door was another shop named Front Porch which was soooooo cute, too! I love this street. All I am posting tonight are the Flutter pics.
It has been raining all day and even though I love the rain my hair hates it :D