Roadside Memorial, Southbound Sierra Highway - Thursday1/3/2008

This memorial has been up for quite some time. I think it was there in some form before the fire that blackened the inside of this tree.


The arch is of some sort of masonry.



A favorite CD.




Messages from friends and family.

I was on my way down to It's A Grind coffee house in Canyon Country when I finally stopped to photograph this. Usually I pass it in the dark or going the other way.

Wednesday 4/11/2007

I don't know if you see these little roadside shrines in other parts of the country. I don't think I saw them till I moved to Southern California.

They mark the places where people died in accidents.



This one is particularly large and well-built, on a cross made of square metal poles. Some friends used the marker to write messages.


Others wrote in a metal and rubber bound notebook.