Hey Cookie:

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Blue sky.

In California. Yesterday. Really.

Fine, I had to drive up a mountain to get this picture and sure, there is still smoke in the view… but damn it, it’s blue sky.

And that counts.

I was wondering if maybe it had something to do with this magical compound:

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Looks all quiet and unassuming. Just sitting there in the middle of the desert on a lonely back road.

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And then you see this pyramid shape rising from next to the trailers and porta potty. (click big)

Yes, that is a human eye painted on one side.

But here is the money shot:

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The whole thing is gold. With a human eye on one side and an Egyptian one on another. (you can’t see the third side from the road)

I would have stopped to see, but every time you drive by, there is a group of people sitting underneath it. (I love y’all, but not that much)

Vortex? Alien landing site? Maybe an adventure for another day when I’m totally bored out of my mind?

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Like me buying this isn’t evidence that I could have become that bored already. Or maybe it’s just the beginning of some sort of mental breakdown.

Because nothing says sanity like biking with a floppy paw in 110 degrees and surrounded by smoke.