A poster for Kamala’s 60th birthday on October 20, 2024, urging supporters to take action

A parody of the Musk-Ramaswamy DOGE logo, renamed “DOGS” for “Den of Greed & Sycophancy.” Maybe not a good idea to associate DOGE with dogs since dogs are, you know, good

Project 2025 flip-flops, with quotes from Trump on one foot extolling Project 2025, and on the other professing ignorance about it. They’re done in the manner of the flip flops attacking John Kerry in the 2004 election

A simple graphic reading “I [heart] comma LA” this is just the popular “I [heart] LA” graphic with a comma added, a popular mnemonic for correctly pronouncing the name “Kamala”

14/ Best Photoshop Efforts to Sway Popular Sentiment and Win the Election 2024

I wanted so much for her to win and thought for sure that my piddling yet undoubtedly witty efforts on Photoshop and Canva would make the difference. Alas…

#Bestof2024 #Top3pics #election2024 #photoshop

Sunset at the railroad crossing at Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View, CA

Sunset at the Caltrain tracks in Sunnyvale, CA

Twilight at the Crittendon Middle School track, Mountain View

13/ Best Suburban Sunset Pics of 2024

Sunset pictures are an obviously overdone genre but I still love them. They can transport even the most mundane of landscapes into something special. And when you live in the burbs…

#Bestof2024 #Top3pics #sunset and #twilight in the #southbay

Electric utility sign warning of electrocution, in Roseville, CA

Electrocution warning sign

Electrocution warning sign

12/ Best Iconic Little People of 2024 (Electrocution Category)

Okay, so this one is quite specific, but the closer you look, the more that you’ll notice all the absolutely terrible fates that meet so many of these little people.

#Bestof2024 #Top3pics #electrocution #signs #linguisticlandscape

No texting on the toilet sign in Japan. The Japanese reads, “Please avoid use for long periods of time, so that others can use as well”

Restroom sign in the U.S. that presents a number of creative options to the typical male/female binary

Sign on bathroom stall in the U.S. that prohibits (presumably men) peeping in on others (presumably women)

11/ Best Iconic Little People of 2024 (Bathroom Category)

The little iconic figures in warning and prohibition signs are interesting to me because they are so generic yet they have to convey differences in sometimes dramatic ways

#Bestof2024 #Top3pics #bathroom #signs #linguisticlandscape

Close-up image of a curled, dry brown leaf on the sidewalk

Low-angle image of a dry green leaf on the sidewalk, with dramatic shadows

Close-up image of a single reddish leaf casting a dark shadow on the pavement

10/ Best Sidewalk Leaf Picture of 2024

I tend to notice the little things on the ground as much as what’s above and around me. I like to think that’s because I see life and expression in unexpected places. But maybe it’s just the ADHD.

#Bestof2024 #Top3pics #leaves #leafphotography

A U.S. flag hangs by a giant white inflatable Halloween monster wearing a hood. Truly I have no idea what to call that. An orc? A demon? Let’s go with “election reaper”

A small U.S. flag stuck upside-down into a crack in a tree stump in someone’s front yard, a few days after the presidential election, Livermore, CA

A frayed U.S. blows in the wind

9/ Most Ominous U.S. Flag Picture After an Election that I Still Haven’t Gotten Over

What can I say? Halloween and November 5 came together in some truly frightening ways. And it hasn’t ended.

It was the #Bestof2024 it was the #Worstof2024 #Top3pics #electiontrauma #USflag #StillLoveYouKamala