For two neighboring businesses on Claremont’s Indian Hill Boulevard, it’s fire vs. water. If you stagger out of the first with a fire within, the second would seem well-equipped to douse it. Although you might not appreciate their angle of attack.

(Actually, A Fire Within is a pottery studio. Colonics is just what you think it is.)

The photo was taken by me but was suggested by Marshall Taylor, the mayor’s husband. Um, did you want credit for that, Mr. Taylor?