Last week in a post titled The Great American Dream I wrote about a new shopping center in San Luis Obispo that I thought was one too many, hurtful to other businesses and otherwise unnecessary. But I just found some pictures I took on the way to the Palm to see The Shape of Water. Once you start taking pictures of flowers on your daily walk it becomes in no time at all an ingrained habit. I didn’t mean to suggest that there was something wrong with the architecture of the buildings, the architecture is actually quite nice. It’s the need for them that I question. But the flowers were on the verge of spectacular.

The landscape architect, if they had one, had eight or ten large pots — I’ll have to count them on my next trip — to fill with something interesting. He (or she) chose to make each one a separate piece of art. Some are showing signs of shock, but they are new and will work that out in the coming months. Here are two examples that I took on my way to the movie without really thinking about it. Lots of color, lots of blooms, pots that seemed almost magnetic.