A Biblical Basketball

  Found this week on Sunrise Hiway near Interstate #8, a man's size 9/Left - looked new and when I looked closer --

-- written on the toe, a Biblical basketball message ??

Glimpsed in Glamis, CA

  A large single (right) black flip flop far out on a sand dune - found while I was standing on the observation overlook of the Imperial San Dunes B.L.M. Recreation Area.

Las Vegas Lost

  On an Interstate I-15 pull out, 40 miles north of Las Vegas (coming or going to the Big City?) - battered, worn and almost baked crispy in the 106 degree heat . . . just a right, men's size 11.

Glued in Glen Arbor, Michigan

   What an awesome pole!  planted outside Art's Tavern in Glen Arbor, Michigan.

 . . . dozens and dozens of Lost Soles.

Smoke Hole, West Virginia

 
Not exactly a lost sole,  but a lost pair maybe - proud and on the side of a barn.  Route 55, WV.

Badly Broken in Babcock West Virginia

   Found:  a beat up, old broken ladies sandal - a left with a very worn sole . . . down by the beautiful grist mill in Babcock State Park.

Lost in Ola, Arkansas

Size 9 - a new black flip flop (right) found in the parking lot of the Family Dollar Store in Ola, Kansas.  (made in China)

Nailed With a View - Red River, NM

A cowboy's lost sole (right) nailed high and dry - worn and split with a hole in the bottom - on a fence pole of a pasture gate.

Lost in the Mountains

Jan 2012:  Found a child's 'Paul Frank' brand right vinyl boot in a parking pull out off Sunrise Hiway in Mt. Laguna, CA.

Found at the Grand Teton National Park in WY

A single ladies blue flip flop sandal found at a gravel pull-out in the National Park - ready to admire the Great Teton Mountains of Wyoming.

Flat Pink - Lakeside, CA

I found this flattened pink thong sandal several parking spaces from the front of Von's grocery store - Los Coches Rd in Lakeside.

Mt. Laguna, CA (Desert View Overlook)

Heading out before dawn to catch the sun's early colors spreading over the Anza Borrego Desert below -

I looked down and nearly stepped on a true lost sole - only the rubber base of a thick heeled, left shoe.

Late for the train

Found at the Bergen, Norway train station - tiny, cute and never worn . . . a toddler's right fake leather pink dress up shoe, H&M brand (Made in China) - size 20-21.

in Bergen, Norway

Can you see them? Glued all over the front of this little boutique shop in Bergen - Lost Soles, no mates - all different shoes up there!

Belugas at Bourbonhamma, Norway

Immediately upon landing at Burbonhamma in Belsund Sound (Svalbard, Norway) - a Lost Sole - a right, weathered rubber boot sole (no upper).

Bourbonhamma is the site of an old beluga whale processing plant. Bleached white skulls and bones (and a few wrecked boats) are the only items left there now.

Ny London, Svalbard Norway

Camp Mansfield at Ny London in Svalbard (Norway) is now rubble and ruins. Among the rust near an old stove, lies what is left of a Lost Sole - just the flat leather sole with barely visible stitching holes around its edges. Camp Mansfield was built decades ago to mine marble, then abandonded when the quality of the marble was so bad, it crumbled like limestone.

Boot Hill, Lake Morena (SD, CA)

Leaving Lake Morena today - driving through the wind, wires and weeds of the back country of San Diego . . . lost soles who haven't been on these fence posts before . . . boots baking in the hot afternoon sun.

Ready to Tango in Chula Vista

Tan and tall in the weeds, this is the exact position I found a Jolie Victoria lost sole when I walked through a field of dusty dying daisies.

Peabody's Turkey Burgers

Encinitas, CA: In a small mall off the freeway - Peabody's Pub - that serves the greatest turkey burgers you can imagine. Outside on a low wall, an Addias sandal (size 6) - a right, newish, very clean - lost and separated from its mate.

Left at the Library (Oceanside, CA)

The weather is warming but this tiny little lost sole probably won't be going to the beach again - a leftie, good condition with beach sand - lost on the concrete stoop in front of the library.