More on Hiking Angeles Forest

One of the visitors to my Arroyo Seco Canyon post has devoted an entire blog to hiking Angeles Forest. There he provides many photos and valuable information gleaned from hiking more than 1,100 miles in said Forest over the last year and a half.  The region is far more beautiful than I realized from a single [...]

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Lessons learned from a trip to Los Angeles

After a week spent in the Los Angeles area, I have these thoughts to share with future visitors from other regions: #1:  The Desert Garden at the Huntington is fabulous. Go. Even if you’re not staying near Pasadena. BUT, before leaving, consult item 3B, and be sure to check the Huntington’s hours, which are fairly [...]

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Arroyo Seco Canyon

Just in the nick of time, I felt well enough to go hiking, and jlodder, Rho and I took a 10 minute drive from M&M’s house to the Arroyo Seco Canyon to start our hike and see what we could see. If I’m recalling correctly, we were on the Gabrielino Trail in the Angeles National [...]

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Ocean!

Santa Monica and Venice Beaches It was 60+ degrees. In February. So not so many tourists. We wimped out and skipped the side of Venice Beach where we were most likely to see the interesting characters.

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Griffith Observatory

On the way back from the Getty, we stopped at the Griffith Observatory–where Mark had suggested we climb to the roof to take in the sunset. It was a good idea. We were told it was an exceptionally clear day, as people pointed out Catalina. When the sky was finally black and blue, we took [...]

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Getty out

jlodder said he wanted to go to the Getty, and that sounded fine to me. So I didn’t look into it much.  It was an art museum.  It had collections from a wide range of periods. It was famous.  We were going.  Good enough. I suppose I expected something along the lines of the Art [...]

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La Brea Tar Pits

Hey, Mr. Columbian Mammoth! Watch out for those . . . . . . tar pits! . . . Arrrrrrrrrgh!

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Huntington Gardens

High on my list of places to go in Los Angeles was the Huntington. When I said this, I was thinking of the Library, with its permanent exhibit, including the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Gutenberg Bible, double-elephant folio edition of Audubon’s Birds of America, and so on.   I had no idea that the Library’s dimly [...]

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Backlog backlog backlog

So many photos, so little processing time. Photos of . . .   Ahhhhh!

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At home in Glendale

Monday morning we took a walk around Glendale, while Margaret took a timed test online. It was prettier than I captured in my iPhone photos, with a lemon tree and a palm tree on every block and all sorts of plants and flowers that I couldn’t identify in front yards. If a walk around the [...]

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