When You Walk Instead of Drive.
Over near Thompson and Main is this monument to eccentricity. But this is hardly an ordinary eccentric’s home. A lot of detail has gone into what was once a relatively small tract house. There’s a belfry, a striking color scheme, river cobble wall, a ten-foot creek — ten feet long, not ten feet wide — and a garage with a lifesize moose on it. Making it especially rich is the neat way the paint scheme on the garage is neatly divided between the fantasticness that is the moose lodge and the sad beigeosity* of the stucco box next door. If I lived next door I’d beg them to do my house too.
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- Entryway for one of the bossest houses in San Dolores.
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- Just an eccentric’s home? Ah contraire, mon frere, this is a way cool house.
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- The lodge even has its own creek and waterfall. Need a bridge for that.
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- Nice stonework and brush action
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- Parking for the moose lodge
*Actually, the house next door is gray with baby-blue trim and really isn’t awful at all. Or wouldn’t be, anyway, except for the contrast.
