One Last Look At Lancaster

Out my window, most nights, I'd see a homeless guy in a wheelchair sleeping between the former veterans med clinic and other vacant office buildings on Lancaster Blvd. My last night before moving to Tahoe, he was there, and as I stuck my camera, discreetly, out the window, he got up and peed a few feet from where he was sleeping, then got back in his chair covered himself with his blanket, and went back to sleep.  Then next morning a group of workers parked in same spot, and sat to take a break in the same spot where the homeless guy peed.  So Long, Lancaster.

Here is the Last Look at Lancaster sequence of still shots:

He's there again, sleeping, as I've seen so many nights before.

Wait, he's waking up.

Hope he does not see me, shooting from between my blinds, what is he doing?

Oh no, I've seen him do this before. He gets up and pees by those pipes, then gets back on his chair and goes back to sleep.

He takes a looooong pee,

Then heads back to his chair to sleep some more..

Next AM Workers on Break Sit in Same Spot!

And I am OUTTA HERE!  Drove a U-Haul to Tahoe two days later, changing my life.

-ke

Two sides of US life Fall 2014

Images of Lancaster CA today

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Patriotic people from all parts, an influx of lost Americans

You can see the breakdown of the American economy all over Lancaster Boulevard. I take pictures as I'm out walking.

I love The Boulevard for its music and entertainment, but truth is, this is what you see here on ordinary days.

Woman at left asks me for spare change every time I pass her, past few months. I always say, I'm broke too, but she keeps asking, just like my daughter.  "I don't have any money either!"


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-ke

Video, Hungry in Lancaster

They arrive around 10:45


 Then they wait



And then the van arrives (and my battery in camera dies)



Read more and see still photos of watching the hungry line up for food from my porch here.

-ke

Hungry in Lancaster Nov 2014

When I moved here 1.5 years ago, I barely saw them, a handful of people outside my door lined up for free food on Saturdays. Now the line is long.

Above, the line at 11 AM yesterday. Below are more hungry people lined up for a small bag of food in the parking lot behind the post office Nov 2014

People with kids

This is just the middle of the line

Two vans arrived around 11:15 another at 11:20

hungry people today in California, viewed from my front porch

-kay ebeling

Pics: City Council May 13, Lancaster

At beginning of hearing, I thought people were there, like me, enthused to hear latest on net-zero electric policy in Lancaster, as we go totally solar.

But by time hearing on electricity started, the room, below, was empty. 

Though AV Press announced hearing on Page 1 Monday, no one from daily paper was at the hearing about breakthrough new electricity policy. Below: Water in a time of drought. 

County water district, above, brings bleak news, plans for reclaiming and conserving, unless it rains in the desert soon, which I believe will happen. I think climate change is going to turn this area lush and green, China Lake may even go back to being a lake.

Ask this man about 

arsenic 
in your water

Below: 
Lancaster moves forward with net zero solar electric policy.

Above is the team that did it. 

I love Lancaster. 
a city where people go out of their way 
to say they love Lancaster.

-ke

It is cool here. I think climate change is going to make the Mojave cool lush and green, I honestly do. Just planted a tomato plant, I have a plot of garden in my apt bldg now, going to grow a bunch of other stuff, while enjoying cool breezes as L.A. broils. hmm. 

Kay Ebeling

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Open House, Lancaster Sheriff Station May 10

I went to Open House at Lancaster Sheriff station Saturday.

The whole idea of an open house 
at the sheriff station is so cool, 
I could not resist taking pics.  

It makes law enforcement part of the neighborhood. 

At right is our down home sheriff of Lancaster, Captain Patrick Nelson.

I was kinda sick, so did not get the best shots, but now I'm resting, as want to get good pics at City Council meeting here tomorrow night. -ke