Pleasures of a sunny So. Cal Saturday
by We all know that the drought in Southern California is very very serious, but it is hard to argue with a warm, lazy Saturday in …
Category: Pasadena
Time-lapse Los Angeles and a sculpture on a street corner
A new video was published on Vimeo this week and is deservedly getting a lot of mentions. It is a time-lapse view of Los Angeles…well, …
Wandering the back alleys and side streets in Old Town Pasadena
In front of City Hall are two large sculptured heads: baseball legends Jackie Robinson and his brother, both of whom grew up in Pasadena. But …
See the Green witch Hillary and Pumpkinhead Donald in a candy store window in Pasadena
(NOTE AS I RE-PUBLISH THIS IN 2020: I was wrong when I wrote this post in 2016. Trump won that election. I have been resisting …
Sculpture in the garden at the Norton Simon museum on a free Friday evening
The Norton Simon museum in Pasadena offers free admission on the first Friday evening of the month and I had been meaning to go there …
Sri Lankan dancers, Buddhist monks and Saving Ganesh at Sri Lanka Day in Pasadena
Last year the Sri Lanka Day festival moved from Santa Monica where, their website claimed, they had 100,000 visitors. Well, there were not that many …
My teenage lovelife in cars at the Pasadena Classic Car Show
I’m not much of a car person but as I wandered away from the Chalk Festival to the Pasadena Classic Car Show last weekend I …
Sizzling hot! Huge Chalk Art Festival in Pasadena
It was 86F at 9 am when I went to the annual Pasadena Chalk Art Festival. As I write this just after noon the temperature …
Street corner art, a lavender house, pinwheels on a fence in South Pasadena
Whimsy seems to be taking over South Pasadena. I went there to shoot photographs of al fresco dining along Mission Street–and there are plenty of …
Stage 2 of Amgen Tour of California started at South Pasadena
This was the third time I’d been to the Tour of California cycling race and it was a much more modest event than the two …