Calistoga, California

Tuesday afternoon I stopped in this small town at the north end of the Napa Valley.  I had a late lunch and walked around town looking at the interesting architecture.

In many of these photos you can see that people were already “claiming” their spots for viewing the 4th of July parade which will occur here on Wednesday by placing chairs along the edge of the sidewalk.  Many of the small towns in this area were shutting down their main street for a few hours on Wednesday to host such parades.

Hmmm… this building doesn’t seem to have any windows.  I wonder whose responsibility THAT was???  In reality, it probably houses telephone or electrical switching equipment and was designed this way to simply protect that equipment and has no need for windows.  This was a nice way to at least make it look a little more attractive.