Sri Lankan dancers, Buddhist monks and Saving Ganesh at Sri Lanka Day in Pasadena
by 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 …
Category: Pasadena
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 …
Amazing glass garden sculptures at the Pasadena Showcase House 2016
The Pasadena Showcase House has been held annually for almost six decades. Year after year designers and decorators and crafts people have transformed large old …
Purple Jacaranda trees in bloom along Del Mar about a month early
Decades ago–say, back in the 1970s and 1980s–the Brazilian Jacaranda trees planted all over Los Angeles bloomed in early June. In recent years the trees …
A secret garden tucked away in Pasadena is filled with quiet places
Pasadena’s Arlington Garden came into being thanks to the efforts of two neighbors, Betty and Charles McKenney, who disliked looking out at an empty 3 acre …
Poison Oak, California Poppies, Mustard and Mallards in the Arroyo Seco Pasadena
While the drought is definitely not over in Southern California, enough rain fell in the last few months to transform the Arroyo Seco into a …
Disappointing art at the new Gold Line Metro stations
I love the original Metro stations for the Gold and Red lines here in Los Angeles. The artwork, commissioned from local artists in the late …