A transient river flows through Hahamongna Watershed Park, charting its own course to carry the recent rainfall from the mountains to the dam. See it while you can. We live in the desert after all. Tonight the Mayor’s State of the City event will be held at LaSalle High School. The event’s theme is “Charting [...]
I attended an event at the Pasadena Convention Center last Sunday–a seminar called POP! Your Book, Brand, Business and Career. On the lower level, the Los Angeles Pottery Show was happening. We had this great view coming and going from the conference room, as we crossed over the lower level on bridges set with tables [...]
The Pasadena blogging community was agog–nay, thrilled with a jealous pang–when, on January 19th, Pasadena Adjacent posted this revelatory tour (with her customary, fun-filled video) inside the workings of the Devil’s Gate Dam tower. She and Mr. V. braved the rain to get a scoop and a coup. No one we knew had been inside [...]
Zen Monday is the day you experience the photo and give us your thoughts rather than me telling you what I think the photo’s about. There’s no right or wrong. It means what you think it means, or what you want it to mean. I look for a photo worth contemplating or, failing that, something [...]
The whole world burst out of its proverbial house house yesterday and enjoyed the sun. Hahamongna Watershed Park was flooded with bikers, hikers, horses, dogs and mountain runoff. The other day on The Sky is Big in Pasadena (not a misnomer, by the way) there was a discussion about whether or not the past week’s [...]
This is Earlham Street, looking west from Lake Avenue. I did not take this photo on a windy day. Any scientists out there? What is it about our trees? Is our sun always in the southern skies and if so, why isn’t that true of everywhere in the northern hemisphere? Is it axis tilt? Magnets? [...]
Here’s the house we’ve been talking about. I wasn’t planning to post these shots. I want to get across the street and get up high on something to shoot over the fence. From this low vantage point I don’t think you get the magnificence of this big ol’ Victorian pile. According to Thal Armathura of [...]
Lake Avenue Church is reflected here in the empty storefront across the road. That’s literal, not figurative. Though the stores may be empty these days, Lake Avenue Church seems full. I wondered if the same is true of all churches. It’s easy to make the assumption that, during a recession, church attendance would rise. So [...]
Sometimes, when you learn a little history, the nondescript becomes, um, descript. When I trekked up Lake Avenue last Satuday I took only a few shots of the Lighthouse Christian Bookstore. I didn’t plan to post them. Why post more depressing shots of empty storefronts, especially when the building is so blah? Then, in comments [...]
This tough-chick mannequin is familiar to anyone who drives north of the freeway on Lake Avenue. She usually sits closer to the road, but when I walked by last Saturday she was almost inside the door of her regular hangout, Pro Boxing Equipment. I stopped inside and met Abdul, the friendly sales rep you see [...]
