cazalea
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Houses of Ocean Beach
Wow, I have such variety to choose from I hardly know where to start.
Rather than sort them bottom to top or vice versa I think I'll just sprinkle them as we walked (and drove) along. Eccentric Variety is how I summarize the neighborhood.
Like this tiny roof-top room, stucco and siding job. I promise I did not enhance or saturate this photo.
Up the street a few houses we saw this palatial home.
Directly across the street the wailings of a pre-school child were echoing along the entire block, coming from the open door of this beautiful view balcony.
There were a number of tree-dominated properties, reflecting the 100-year history of the neighborhood.
This property uniquely had a Spanish tile roof on its front wall!
Almost can't see the house, but it's up there. Hill lots are complicated.
Now for something new and different (in most ways). What it had in common was another wailing infant. I guess because it's a warm morning all the windows are open.
Private home, great unobstructed view, and best of all
a garage to die for in the alley. Anyone care to guess its market value?
Across the street was a cute little home.
Modern.
Cute traditional and not-so-little home.
Wood shakes on the left, bare stucco in the middle, Spanish/Calif on the right.
Here's the kind of house I grew up in. Early Fifties, Ten thousand dollars, family home. Judging from the chair position on the porch, mom and dad aren't speaking to each other.
After mom and dad kissed and made up, there were new brothers and sisters coming along, and this is where you moved when the starter home couldn't hold them all...
An unusual style in San Diego, but a very clean place, for sure.
I mentioned the complication of hillside lots. Like this is a sidewalk!!!
And does the mailman really have to climb those stairs every day?
Gads!
I'll finish with a couple that we could see living in (as if)
Cazalea
PS -- too cute for me and too small a driveway but my wife liked this - maybe a spare house for ladies tea afternoons?
Ocean Beach Early Morning
Today we don't feature any sand or surf, because it was gray and the parking lot was nearly full at 7:30 am - a congregation of surfers competing with groggy homeless folk waking and spreading their limbs out of sleeping bags, van back doors, or washing t...
The Cars of Ocean Beach, 2024
There were a number of interesting cars today, including this nice long-bed Chevy pickup nicely contrasted with the Cape Honeysuckle hedge and American flag. Continuing the truck theme, a rare Jeep pickup with a small cab-over camper shell on the back. No...
Sweet selection!
The first shot is postcard quality. I feel the LRs belong to the modern home owner, but you having made a point of asking the question in the first place gives me doubt ....
Houses of Ocean Beach
Wow, I have such variety to choose from I hardly know where to start. Rather than sort them bottom to top or vice versa I think I'll just sprinkle them as we walked (and drove) along. Eccentric Variety is how I summarize the neighborhood. Like this tiny r...
Houses: the big modern one 4520 and the Palatial One
Both values in the $3-4 million range! About 4000 square feet living space and quarter-acre lots. This one from 2007 or so This older but very nice inside and look at its views. ...
Animals & Plants of Ocean Beach
As we walked we couldn't help noticing flowers, hearing birds, stumbling over artwork of plants and birds, etc. I will start with Birds on A Wire: Sleepy Parrot on a Wire (or is it a sarcastic side-eye look?) Parrot on a Palm Hummingbird of Paradise Brill...
Love it! =)
How do you know the parrot was sleepy? Perhaps he's just giving you the side eye - his best Lee Van Cleef impression ....
It's possible, but I zoomed in and I think he was dozing (he didn't squawk at us)
Enough fooling around on the computer, I need to go get some lunch! ...