Ride ponies! Pet bunnies! Listen to flamenco jazz on a Sunday morning in Montrose!
by This is part two about the Montrose Harvest Market. (Part 1 is here) The neighborhood of Montrose in Glendale (CA) has earned a reputation as …
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.
More than organic veggies at the Montrose Harvest Market. Eat dates! Buy art!
With more than 200 farmer’s markets in L.A. country, fruits and veggies–organic and otherwise–are readily available. But not all farmers markets are the same. Most …
Are there new lotus at the Echo Park lake? Well, maybe. There sure are water lilies.
The lotus that have grown in Echo Park lake for almost a century were supposedly planted by that charismatic evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, whose Angelus …
Praise the lord! Angelus Temple is thriving and so are Aimee McPherson’s lotus plants (maybe)
It’s commonly believed, even by the Los Angeles Parks Dept., that celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson planted the Asian lotus plants in the lake that …
The Los Angeles Arboretum lake is full. Winter’s over but the California drought is not.
It’s amazing what happens after three days of steady downpour here in Southern California. The lake near Lucky Baldwin’s historic cottage in the L.A. Arboretum …
What? Golf and rugby added to Olympics, but not lacrosse or roller sports?
Last weekend I went down to the Rose Bowl with the intention of taking photos of cyclists and joggers and Sunday strollers. But what …
California drought? There must be 6 inches of water left in that lake at the Arboretum!
In February the aloe plants bloom at the Los Angeles Arboretum, but they must have bloomed early this year. Many of those brilliant orange spires …
Finding French sea salt in South Pasadena
Sometimes I go to South Pasadena (which is very close to where I live) just to go for a walk along shady streets and stop …
Angelenos at the Chinatown New Year’s parade were fascinating
While the annual New Year’s parade in Chinatown is full of color and waving flags and marching groups, the spectators drawn to the parade were …
Who is this singer lip-syncing on Venice beach in California?
The music biz lost me when rap began to take over the air waves and I switched five of the six radio buttons in my …