L.A. Festival of Books: Poetry Slam, Fancy Nancy, YA Fantasy Fiction and Breast Feeding
by In just a few minutes I’m leaving to go to the second day of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Before I go I …
Photos of the informal Street Market on Alvarado in Los Angeles–a world apart from Hollywood glamour!
Unlike the Montrose Harvest Market on Sundays, which I photographed a few weeks ago, the informal street market on Alvarado on Sunday represents another side …
It’s CicLAvia — bicycling along Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. No cars! Just people and #bikes!
Wilshire Blvd., a main cross-city street in L.A., was closed to cars today and bicylists were free to go anywhere along the way from One …
See Arlington Garden in Pasadena on National Arbor Day
The City of Pasadena held a tree planting event on Arbor Day, which is almost seems redundant since Pasadena is already a heavily forested city. …
See where Trader Joe’s got started as a fast-service wine and cheese store in Pasadena, California
Once upon a time there was a convenience store called Prontos, located on Arroyo Parkway and Pico in Pasadena. Then one day the owner decided …
Ride ponies! Pet bunnies! Listen to flamenco jazz on a Sunday morning in Montrose!
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 …
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 …