Category Archives: Objects

 Found this Big Flip Flop at the Savvy store on State Street in Santa Barbara while looking for some lightweight shoes.  Nice surprise, and I did purchase some shoes too!

Santa Barbara Flip Flop

Another fork in the road.  This one in Pasadena, California.  Here is some info from Bird Dog Andy.

“I got some more intel on that fork in Pasadena from Jacob and Meghana yesterday. It apparently was very controversial when they put it in since it was installed by the artist without any permission. There was a years long fight about it but was eventually allowed.”

In the concrete in the base is inscribed, “Peace, Love and Harmony.”

Fork in the Road

You never know where Big Things will appear.  We had just left the Moretz cabin on the Juniata River in Pennsylvania when we drove past the Shade Gap Elementary School.  I didn’t see these Big Crayons but the Chief Photographer did and called for a quick U-turn.  This photo is the result.

Shade Gap Elementary

I can’t imagine how big the houses must be to rate a For Sale Sign this big.  This signed was spotted on the way into south Ocean City, NJ where we spent a few days after Christmas with the family.

Big Sign to sell Big Houses

My Uncle Ed lives in St. Johns, Michigan and when we stop to see him we generally stop at Andy T’s market.  They have a lot of landscaping plants, (we purchased some) and a small market with a lot of home made goods like pastries, jelly, etc.  Always a good stop.  In the past there was a Big Chair in the field nearby.  This time, well hello!  This big Radio Flyer was next to the parking lot.  Wow, what an unexpected find.

Andy T’s Radio Flyer

Well, we were up in Michigan to visit my Uncle Ed. While there we spent some time and drove through St. Johns, and we noticed this Big Anvil atop the Hammer in Hand Custom Cycles building.  I visited briefly but it’s taken me some time to get this image up on the site.  This is my first Big Anvil, who knew it would be in St. Johns.

Hammer in Hand Anvil

On the way home from the LA trip we changed planes in the Minneapolis airport. On the way to the commuter terminal I found this bookstore with a couple big pile of books and some oversize newspapers decorating the front of the store.  Now, I traveled through MSP for years and never spotted these big things.

Minneapolis Airport Bookstore

On the way from Ventura we spotted this Big Fork on Main Street in Santa Monica.  Grabbed a parking spot around the corner (not the easiest thing to do in Santa Monica) to get this image.  This, I found out is the symbol/logo for the Fork in the Road Restaurant, a “New American Restaurant.” What ever that means.  It was mid-afternoon and were headed for a great dinner at “The Lobster,” at the base of the Santa Monica Pier so we didn’t stop in for a nosh.

Santa Monica Fork in the Road

We had a visitor’s choice day according to Julia’s trip schedule during our Spring Break Trip to Los Angeles.  It was a fine Tuesday morning and after visiting the magnificent rose garden in the park out front we visited the California Science Center.  What a great museum!  Lot’s of school groups present and the museum has lots of interactive displays which keep their attention.  The museum is also the home to the retired Space Shuttle Endeavor.  A good presentation on space travel and videos of the arrival of the space shuttle, both the fly-overs as well as the surface movement of the shuttle onto the museum grounds.  I was even happier when we spotted this big gyroscope mounted outside the ExploraStore.

California Science Center Gyroscope

On Saturday right after we arrived Julia and Dan took us down to the LA City Market.  What an interesting place.  Lots of ethnic food types, almost any type of pepper you could want.  It was a veritable treasure of sights, sounds and smells.  If you have time this is a stop you must take in LA.

LA City Market

The Indianapolis Home Show has been the site of my first Big Thing photos of the year. This year yielded a couple. Here is a Big Smartphone located in the Comcast booth right at the west entrance. Chris was kind enough to let us take this photo. If you look closely at the screen on the phone you can just make out the Chief Photographer in the lower left.

Home Show

This is a new one. This granite company exhibits every year showing a wide variety of large granite slabs. It’s always interesting to see the many different types of granite on display. This year to draw attention to their booth they displayed this big granite vase. I don’t know how they did this, must have used the largest granite lathe ever made. Quite impressive work.

Home Show Vase