Rain didn’t stop the bicycling in South Pasadena
by The 626 Golden Streets bicycling event in the San Gabriel Valley is the first open streets event of the year. The name of the event …
Tag: South Pasadena
Pleasures of a sunny So. Cal Saturday
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 …
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 …
See the Special Olympics emblem in a park in South Pasadena.
As I was coming home from the National Dance Day dance-a-thon in downtown Los Angeles, I spotted this home-made Special Olympics emblem in the park …
Farewell, adios and goodbye to bookstores in Pasadena. Another one just closed. Only two left.
[Post originally published 2014] Pasadena has always been a kind of high-culture city. Philharmonic orchestras (until recently we had two), art movie houses, notable 20th …
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 …