After several days of rain–a lot, for us–sunny skies are predicted for the immediate future. I like rain. I’m a homebody; to cuddle up in a blanket and read, pretending it’s actual winter outside, is an old-fashioned pleasure for me. Boz, our dog, does not like rain. This is a problem, as his bathroom facilities [...]
Union Station, Los Angeles Every once in a while we have business to catch up on. On which to catch up. Straggling details. Fragments. The annual lighting ceremony on Christmas Tree Lane will be this Saturday at 6pm, preceded by a vendor fair in the Altadena Library parking lot at 2. Altadena craftspeople don’t generally [...]
If you’re a Zen Monday regular, I don’t need to say anything. If you’re not: Zen Monday is the day you tell us what the photo’s about, rather than me telling you. The idea is (very loosely) based on the concept of Zen teaching, where a pupil learns through experience rather than through conventional methods [...]
Let’s finish up our Water Walk with Bellis today, by continuing south along the path below Devil’s Gate Dam. There are other wonders to behold, some not easy to see–100-year-old rusted pipes with rivets at their seams, stone walls embedded in the path–but this–what is this? At last, it doesn’t matter that I don’t know [...]
It’s the first of the month and time for City Daily Photo’s monthly theme day. “My Street” is the theme we selected this time (democratically, as always). I won’t tell you much about my street because it’s our private Brigadoon. We love living here. We have the most wonderful neighbors, and we know we’re fortunate [...]
Bellis and I continued south on the path along the east side of Brookside Golf Course. This lovely little entrance to the zanja (water ditch) continues the classical architecture theme from yesterday. To the left and right of the pipeline are the original stone walls. Above it is Rosemont Avenue. The little green leaves in [...]
Whew! We’ve just walked through the magical passageway pictured in yesterday’s post, just south of the Devil’s Gate Dam in the central Arroyo Seco. There’s a fresh, cold stream here that flows year ’round from east to west (sometimes it’s more full than others). It’s in my picture, actually, but so wealthy with reeds at [...]
Recently there was a walking tour of the water history of the Arroyo, which I missed. But Bellis went, and the other day she showed me some of the highlights. I didn’t write it all down, but I took pictures, which is almost as good. We’re still Celebrating Pasadena’s Water Centennial, so for the next [...]
It’s one of the streetlamps on Colorado Blvd. near Madison. I don’t think this lamp is an antique, or particularly special, though I could be wrong. I just like the shot. I found a nice picture on Flickr of the buildings in the background, which is a good thing because I didn’t have a photo [...]
Rainy days and Mondays always get Boz down. Even Zen Mondays. If Boz could sing, I don’t think he’d sound like Karen Carpenter. I think he would sound like Robert Plant. Sorry to go on. Zen Monday is supposed to be the day when you caption the photo instead of me. But feel free to [...]
