If you take a ten minute drive from South Pas down Arroyo, you’ll reach neighboring Pasadena’s famous Rose Bowl. Tonight, many South Pas residents will join more than 96,000 other people gathering here to see U2 in concert — possibly the biggest concert in Rose Bowl history. (I’ll bet Pasadena daily photoblogger Ben Wideman will [...]
Of all the signs in traffic that hectic day, the yellow one on the blue car gave the best general direction… Read the Full Story at Glimpses of South Pasadena
The gingerbread trim and purple gable make this house seem like something out of a fairy tale. And since it’s getting closer to Halloween, perhaps a tale like this, from poet John Reibetanz: The Finger Puppets in the Attic Dollhouse If they, more petitethan the mice whose flittingshave pillaged their robes’ sparkled trim, stood tiptoeon [...]
Just when I think I’ve photographed every classic car in South Pas, I turn a corner and find another one. This cool set of wheels certainly brightened up an otherwise dreary and overcast morning. Read the Full Story at Glimpses of South Pasadena
It’s that time again, my imaginative darlings — time for me to sit back with gleeful expectation and shout, “Action!” If this were the setting for a film, what would happen here? Read the Full Story at Glimpses of South Pasadena
In other words: an accidental shot the ended up looking fairly artistic! Read the Full Story at Glimpses of South Pasadena
There’s not much to say about these cute little apartments. But just look at all those rear windows! Imagine all the stories playing out behind each of them… (Kind of like this.) Read the Full Story at Glimpses of South Pasadena
Duality fascinates me. I love the way two seemingly incongruous things can exist together in a kind of light/dark, up/down symbiosis. Just think about how boring life would be if we only had the angel on one shoulder demanding that we mind our manners and eat our vegetables. Without that little devil on the other [...]
Let’s let Omar Khayyam offer the commentary for this one: A book of verse, underneath the bough,A jug of wine, a loaf of bread – and thouBeside me singing in the wilderness -Ah, wilderness were paradise now! Read the Full Story at Glimpses of South Pasadena
You know, nothing say home sweet home quite like a wholesome scene of dormer windows, a shade tree and a tire swing. Um, yeah. About that tire swing… My first thought pegged it as something out of an old German expressionist film but, upon reflection, maybe it’s actually a hobby horse. (From an old German [...]
