July 13, 2006 Dansk tekst til venstre English text on the right Dagens baghave: Backyard of the Day: San Diego County Administration Center, San Diego, California The San Diego County Administration building is located at 1600 Pacific Highway in Downtown San Diego, California

Vi plantede "kolonihavehuset" foran San Diego amts administration, en ti-etagers bygning. Hvis der er nogen af jer, der kan huske detektivserien "Simon & Simon," så er det den bygning, de altid gik ind i, når der skulle snuses. We planted the "summer house" in front of the San Diego County Administration, a ten-story building. If any of you remember the series "Simon & Simon," this is the building they always went into when they were getting the dirt on somebody. I mosaikken over indgangen er to datoer, 1542, som er det år Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo opdaged San Diego, og 1936, som er det år bygningen blev bygget. In the mosaic over the entrance are two dates, 1542, the year Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered San Diego, and 1936, the year the building was erected. Foran administrationen står Donald Hords mest berømte værk, skulpturen "Vandets Vogter", som han huggede ud af en 20-tons granitblok sidst i trediverne. In front of the administration stands Donald Hord's most famous work, the sculpture "Guardian of Water", which he chiseled out of a 22 ton granite block in the late thirties.   Det er vidst første gang jeg har set et offentligt vandbasin uden så meget som en rød øre i. Måske fordi riget fattes penge? I think I've never before seen a public waterbasin without as much as a red cent in it. San Diego must be broker than I thought!

Sheriffen - ulovligt - parkeret udenfor Administrationsbygningen ~ The sheriff parked - illegally - outside the Administration building.

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