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Yellow and black directional road signs located on the southwest corner of Carmel Point. They mark a famous sharp turn on a blind corner of Scenic Road. Only the top arrow remains today, as the road was made one-way southbound a few years after this photograph was made. Too many cars were meeting at the corner and were forced to back-up to make way for the other. It would become a mess if multiple cars had to back up. So this image is a bit of a historical document.

Photo copyright James B Toy.

In the fall of 1959, Mr. Toy entered this world at a place called Carmel on California's Monterey Peninsula. Nine years later his family pulled up stakes for the rain-soaked city of Salem, Oregon where he never quite fit in. When he was 12, he and his mother viewed an exhibit of photographs by a Salem newspaper photographer, which inspired him to take his first photography class. During his teenage years he gradually developed his eye for composition and his skills with light and exposure. Though he did not pursue photography as a career, he has continued to document his observations of the world on small frames of film. In 1984, Mr. Toy and his wife Heidi returned to the Monterey Peninsula where his heart belonged. In 1997, on a bit of...