I’m willing to spend a little on shoes because if I don’t, my feet put up a fuss. (I’ll cut corners in just about any area but this one.) But I’m about to give up. I’ve been looking and walking and shopping and walking and walking and my dogs are sore! (and I don’t mean [...]
Can you believe it’s been forty years since the first Earth Day? I suppose if you were born after about 1965, you can. I like the way Pasadena celebrates. With love in our hearts we hail April 22nd as Earth Day, then when Saturday rolls around we celebrate Greening the Earth Day when everyone can [...]
Annual Denim Day in LA celebrates it’s 11th year today. Denim Day was inspired when in Italy in 1992 the Italian Supreme Court overturned a guilty verdict in a rape case. One judge stated that the middle-aged man in the case couldn’t have raped the young girl “because the victim wore very, very tight jeans, [...]
A chance of rain tonight, they say. Lovely, lovely rain. That rain comes with a “cold upper level low pressure system.” For two days. Snow in the grapevine,* maybe. In April. In southern California. You know, where we live in this here hot, desert climate. Bundle up. *“The Grapevine” is local vernacular for the highest [...]
In a few weeks we’ll celebrate 100 Zen Mondays. What do you think? Shall we have a contest of some sort? A prize? I welcome your suggestions as well as your comments about today’s Zen Monday photo. Zen Monday is the day you experience the photo and give us your thoughts rather than me telling [...]
When I need a break I go for a hike in the hills. But some situations call for drastic measures. When it gets that bad you need a complete departure from civilization. I remember going on church retreats when I was a pre-teen. They were fun, like going to camp. On one retreat I had [...]
Peering out from under the awning at the Pasadena Christian Center (yesterday’s post), take a look across the street. There’s a cute, little old building that houses the Old Pasadena Vintage Lighting Company at 2569 Colorado Blvd. The “about us” link on their site doesn’t work but the other links do. They get good reviews [...]
At 2588 East Colorado Blvd., among antique shops, used furniture stores and a cute-looking restaurant or two, you’ll find the Pasadena Christian Center which (obviously) used to be a movie theater. A snoop around the church’s website will tell you about their religious mission and practice. They’ve been in Pasadena in various locations since 1929, [...]
I’m trying to come up with something metaphorical to say about this photo. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.Don’t let things slip through the cracks.It’s the little things. Maybe I should try to come up with something original instead. Every day the world teems with traffic, marriage, war, shopping, [...]
John got this close-up of a shovel near the Devil’s Gate Dam not long ago. There’s still much work to be done over there. After rain last weekend the water has risen again, collecting debris behind the dam. Workers have corralled the debris (everything from driftwood to plastic bottles to stray socks) so when it’s [...]
