Meditation on Vegas

The Venetian has gondoliers and canals under a trompe l’oeil sky. The water’s also on the second floor! The next earthquake, carry goggles and fins cruising through the lobby!

A Vegas classic – a kidney-shaped pool at the Stratosphere

Patriotic, Elvis-loving Vegas cabby

Escalator beckons Vegas visitor down into neon twilight

Twilight’s last gleaming on Vegas’s newer glass and steel casinos

Roman gods wrestle spitting fish in Parisienesque fountain

Splashing faux Roman fountain lit by pulsating neon

Phil Knight, eat your heart out. Caesars has a better copy of the Nike of Samothrace Winged Victory sculpture in the Louvre.

Hip hop love at The Forum’s best Roman fountain

Real life Lion and Lioness in Winter by MGM Grand golden lion

How the Flamingo pulsating neon once loomed over the Strip and awed the masses – — before the wild growth spurt of the 90s.

Vegas angel trumpets her siren call to gamblers

Real palms at The Palms

Hard Rock Café’s giant neon Fender Stratocaster totem

Luxor pyramid and Phaoronic guardian — with a soul patch

New York New York Lady Liberty scaled down a match for hard times

Eiffel towers over The Parisian

Caesars and Cher – a marriage made in Mammon. Doesn’t she look like Cleopatra?

Roman gods wrestle spitting fish in Parisienesque fountain

Desert jackrabbit sculpture at McCarran Airport