The Mission Inn
While no one was looking …

I snuck away on a quick European vacation …

… drank up some of that Old World Charm …

… and imagined what it might be like to live in the midst of such grandeur.

(The Mission Inn, in Riverside, California … not Europe, alas, but a wonderful place to play with your camera!)


It amused me to see the faux-European shopping area in San Jose, when I visited. It was far too perfect and new and bright to actually feel European.
I tend to think the fancy buildings and wonders in Europe would have had the effect of cowing the poor and inspiring the rich. Perhaps they do so even now.
Comment by Melody-Jane — November 9, 2008 @ 3:54 am