Every evening, when the sun strikes at a certain angle, the mountains turn pink. I never tried to show you with my Olympus SP350, but I have a plan in mind to capture it with the Canon 20D when I’m good and ready. But today the pink moment happened with clouds and I didn’t have [...]
I snapped this just because the light’s pretty. Sometimes that’s all I need. If you enlarge the photo you can see the stone pillar on the right and the stone wall at center. Both are typical of Craftsman architecture in Pasadena. In this case I’d guess the pillar at right (part of a gate) is [...]
This isn’t really a drive-by shot, silly. It’s not safe to shoot photographs while driving. This is a park-by shot. But I’m keeping up my (teeny tine-y) theme in support of the Put a Fork in Hunger food drive, which is coming up this weekend (details below). The drive was put together by The Fork [...]
In keeping with this week’s developing theme (did you notice a theme was developing?) of guerrilla art, here’s a guerrilla drive-by photo, taken at dusk yesterday while I waited for the traffic light to change at Orange Grove and Lake. I’ve long admired this building at 825 E. Orange Grove Blvd. I searched the web [...]
Drive a little further south on St. John Avenue from yesterday’s photo and you’ll come to the Fork in the Road. Today’s photo was taken by Phil Coombes, pictured at right. I myself have avoided photographing the Fork. This is not because I don’t like the Fork. Hell, everyone likes the Fork. But everyone has [...]
I don’t usually tip off Zen Monday until the following week but today I’m making an exception. Pascal Jim guessed right in yesterday’s comments when he surmised there was another sign down the street. Politics and grammar aside, your signs in yesterday’s comments are more fun. Bellis is a cagey one. Her comment indicated she [...]
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. I also stay out of the comments box for most of the day, so as not to influence the discussion. I look for a photo worth contemplating or, failing that, [...]
Fellow Pasadena-area blogger AmyR is beyond busy this month. Besides hosting a dinner party last weekend and her mother this weekend and besides it being a busy time at work (which I learned from one of her posts) and besides operating two blogs, Amy is writing a novel. Yes, she’s writing a novel this month. [...]
Gee, those are clean dumpsters and wow, that alley is tidy. I guess you can keep your dumpsters and alleys polished when you have hired help. I’d love to employ someone to do that for me, but first I’d hire someone to clean the house. Then I’d hire someone to do the laundry. Wait–no, I [...]
I was looking for something spooky to post for Friday the 13th and I stopped at this one. Not spooky. Tranquil, in fact. I’m facing south under the 210 freeway overpass, toward the Rose Bowl. It’s tranquil except for the noise of rushing traffic above. The photo suits my mood. I have a lot to [...]
