Play ball! And play catch at Dodgers Spring Training in Phoenix
by 2021 Spring Training in the Cactus League begins February 29th. I’m not sure if I will drive up to Phoenix to attend this year, but …
Author: carollightwood
I moved to LA from San Francisco in 1974 and lived in various towns and neighborhoods around greater Los Angeles until 2019 when I moved to Tucson. Originally I was from Washington State.
Never rains in California…except in winter
Even though the local weather people didn’t tell us, this must be an El Nino year. With this current storm system, a “pineapple express” is …
The Super Blood Wolf Eclipse as seen on the West Coast
Here it is. I took the photo with my little old Canon camera. It really was red and then clouds came up and obscured it …
Flying men and baseball player mosaics in the Civic Center Metro Station L.A.
Back in the late 1980s and 1990s when the Metro system was being built in Los Angeles, the city went all out for art. In the …
Decorating the 2019 South Pasadena Rose Parade float
In keeping with the “Melody of Life” theme for the 2019 Tournament of Roses Parade the city of South Pasadena is entering a float called …
Ripe dates on palm trees on Christmas Day
No snow on the palm trees or freezing, snowy weather in Pasadena or Los Angeles on Christmas Day, 2018. In fact, the date palms planted …
No guns. No knives. No cigarettes. A sign of the times at Kaiser?
The new sign that greets patients at the Kaiser Permanente Optical office reads: “No Weapons Allowed”. Smoking, of course, has been banned in most California …
Queen Sassy Classy as Lady Godiva and other strange stuff at the Doo Dah Parade
What a surprise! The photos of the 2018 Doo Dah Parade I thought had vanished turned up last night, so here are more pix of …
Creative chaos at the Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena
Launched 41 years ago as a send-up of the oh-so-serious Tournament of Roses parade, the PasadenaDooDah parade has been wacky and chaotic from the start. …
Day of the Dead altar honoring Coco Chanel in Pasadena
Day of the Dead has passed but I just came across photos of the altar in the front window of a store on Holly Street …