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On The Road – Steve from Mendocino – Mendocino Village – Fifth Set

by WaterGirl|  January 21, 20225:00 am| 11 Comments

This post is in: Mendocino, On The Road, Photo Blogging

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Steve from Mendocino

Mendocino Village and the surrounding towns are primarily tourist destinations. According to The Guardian, Mendocino has 1,000 full time residents and 2,000 daily visitors. The pandemic has had the predictable impact on this tourist town, but a severe drought has compounded these challenges. Signs are everywhere asking people to take extreme measures.

People have been skipping showers; restaurants have installed porta potties; many inns are on the verge of shutting down. An additional challenge has been the aging of the resident population in the coastal communities, with tradesmen retiring and not being replaced. Property values have been skyrocketing as Bay Area people move up here intending to telecommute going forward.

I need maintenance on my house, and the contractor I’ve used in the past told me that there’s not the remotest possibility of him looking at my project for a year and a half, since he’s committed to two new house contracts right now.

These pictures, though, are pre-pandemic, pre-drought, pre-Trump.  Life was nicer.

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Ford House at sunrise.  The only public bathroom in town is located in this building.  Not very fancy, but there’s plumbing.

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The west end of the village in spring.  I make a point of never taking photos anywhere near midday because the light is flat and uninteresting (unless there’s weather).  It took a very long time and lots of burning and color work to get this to look satisfactory to my eye.

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An example of cheap, gingerbread architecture that turns up a bit too often.  The historical review board can be really annoying, demanding paint samples of white paint on a re-paint.  Where were they when this was approved?  My guess is an influential friend was involved.

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A more typical example of Mendocino architecture.

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This house was used as Jessica Fletcher’s house in the mystery series “Murder She Wrote.”  It was an inn named “Blair House” for most of the time I’ve lived here but has recently reverted to private occupancy.

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A house and fence, photographed for their composition.

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Main Street shops at dusk.  They look south over the cliffs and the bay and down the coast.

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The coastline north, taken from the headlands west of the village.

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11Comments

  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 21, 2022 at 5:27 am

    Love the house and fence photo. And the coastline is beautiful.

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    JPL

    January 21, 2022 at 6:44 am

    Lots of murders for such a small town.   I do like the house though.

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    Betty

    January 21, 2022 at 6:57 am

    You do have a great eye, Steve.

  4. 4.

    debbie

    January 21, 2022 at 7:06 am

    I ? gingerbread!

  5. 5.

    Albatrossity

    January 21, 2022 at 9:10 am

    Great shots, as always. Thanks!

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    Grumpy Old Railroader

    January 21, 2022 at 9:28 am

    Beautiful photos. I’m surprised you omitted Point Cabrillo Light Station but I supposed it is just outside of town limits

  7. 7.

    Benw

    January 21, 2022 at 9:38 am

    Love the coastline pic. Water is the best

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    Steve from Mendocino

    January 21, 2022 at 9:47 am

    @Grumpy Old Railroader: That will come in a later post.  I still have one more post of the village before I make a couple of posts along the coast.

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    WaterGirl

    January 21, 2022 at 10:42 am

    Steve, when you get to your very last set from Mendocino, I will miss these so much.  I’m not sure whether to ask you to tell me it’s the last set beforehand or ask that you don’t tell me.

    After my mom died, I saved and saved and saved my last jar of her plum apple butter because I didn’t want to use it up and not have it anymore.  I ended up saving it until it had gone bad, so I guess I didn’t think that one all the way through.

    I might have to hang on to your last Mendocino post so we would always have one!  :-)

    Having said that, please tell me when you submit the last one because I really would rather know.

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    Mike Mundy

    January 21, 2022 at 11:46 am

    We were up there last summer. I was taken by the Masonic statue high in the air, also photographed by A Adams.

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    JanieM

    January 21, 2022 at 12:00 pm

    The work on #2 (west end of the village) paid off — it has a kind of stillness to it, as if it’s a look into past times.

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