A Saturday drive led us to a roadside attraction–and a poem.
Roadside Attraction
Not to be missed
pepto-pink dinosaur
large enough to house a gift shop
garish T-rex
with a view through
carnivorous teeth
visible from the back seat
on an endless car ride:
the perfect stop.
Who imagined
concrete dinosaurs
as large as life
beckoning
drawing us back
to the land before time
with a perfect robin’s-egg blue sky
and rocky, snow-topped mountains
as the backdrop.
®Douillard
Thinking Through My Lens 
This is Cabazon, right?
Yep.
Where were you headed? I haven’t been to the desert since the pandemic started…hoping to go again in the summer.
We wanted a nice long drive–so decided to head out to the Cabazon outlets. And since the dinos were nearby, stopped there too. I’ve been needing to get away–new views help a lot!