Exactly what I told my neighbor. Only I said it yesterday. (Or, according to this post, I guess I must have said it today. No wait, now I'm confused. Maybe I said it two days ago?)
Today I thought, what if the weather never changes from this? We'll always have plenty of water, and our plants will thrive, but we'll need lots of vitamin D and suicide prevention.
I just went to check and make sure a post I set to run today had posted---it hadn't. oops.
I spent many a day standing like Little Bit, staring out the window at the rain, wondering if it was EVER going to stop? I particularly remember watching wave after wave of rain come down the street and the gutters running over their banks. Then again, I do remember being a bit older and going out in the rain to play anyway and trying to throw around a REALLY soaked NERF football...throwing is hard, catching is a soaking experience!
I saw all those double rainbow pics posted to Twitter while it was still pouring over here. Who would have thought mother nature would favor the westside over the San Gabriel Valley?
In December of 2007, after many years on the west side of Los Angeles (and at least a third of those years spent stuck in traffic on Pico Boulevard) my family settled into a happy little house in South Pasadena. This daily blog covered over 4 year as I put down roots in my new home town.
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Thank you Charlie's Coffee House for hosting my recent photo exhibit, South Pas: Observed. From October 2011 through January 2012 my pictures graced the walls of the best place in town to get a cup of coffee!
Read the nifty story on photo bloggers Petrea Burchard, Ben Wideman, Kat Likkel and little old me featured in the September, 2011 issue of Pasadena Magazine.
For over 4 years, I presented a picture a day from South Pasadena, California -- an incorporated city within the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. All photos up to November, 2008 were taken with a Fujifilm Finepix E900 camera. I added a Fujifilm Finepix S2000HD megazoom in December 2008, a Nikon D3100 in 2010 and a Lumix DMC-DS8 in 2011. I shot with them all. In August 2010 I joined the iPhone camera craze and sometimes included pictures captured by my phone. I regularly cropped images and used basic editing software to adjust the brightness, intensify the contrast, and increase color saturation. Other than that, all images came straight from the camera with minimal alteration. (If I couldn't have done it in a darkroom, I wouldn't do it with a computer.)
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Consider it a love letter to the place I call home.
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Run, don't walk to the nearest bookseller and pick up a copy of Margaret Finnegan's delightful debut novel, The Goddess Lounge -- undoubtedly the kookiest, most wonderful riff on Homer's Odyssey ever written. Margaret never ceases to inspire and make us laugh at her blog Finnegan Begin Again. Her book is magical, silly, smart and a wonderful love letter to the all the goddesses among us.
Our very own Altadena poet Linda Dove weaves words into thoughtful tapestries in her moving poetry collection In Defense of Objects and chapbook O Dear Deer.
Kevin McCollister of East of West LA blows our minds with haunting images of Los Angeles. But since we can't put his blog on our coffee table, we can buy his fantastic book. I believe Kevin's images truly capture the quixotic and often heartbreaking soul of LA. Don't take my word for it, see what The LA Times had to say.
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Oops, this post for Wednesday jumped the gun and appeared before it was supposed to. Blame it on the storm.
Even your blog is going stir crazy! =)
Exactly what I told my neighbor. Only I said it yesterday. (Or, according to this post, I guess I must have said it today. No wait, now I'm confused. Maybe I said it two days ago?)
Today I thought, what if the weather never changes from this? We'll always have plenty of water, and our plants will thrive, but we'll need lots of vitamin D and suicide prevention.
A GOOD TIME TO LET IT ALL OUT
Laurie: Label: Gus's BBQ? ;-)
Every day I watch the national weather, hoping to hear something different for Southern California. They are blaming it on the "Pineapple Express."
If you are unfamiliar with this phenomenon, READ THIS
Who would have thought it was Hawaii's fault?
Love your mood. Something about a somber child gazing out a window....
Little Bit woke up this morning, looked out the window and said, "I think South Pasadena is under a spell."
When is this going to stop?!
Oh, Earl, this shot is actually from Gus's. We braved the weather to get out for lunch yesterday and this was taken in the front of the restaurant.
Good eye Mr E!!! Since it's the Pineapple Express, are you all wearing your Tommy Bahama's???
(some of my posts have done that recently too! Or not posted at all)
Who said rain dances don't work.
I just went to check and make sure a post I set to run today had posted---it hadn't. oops.
I spent many a day standing like Little Bit, staring out the window at the rain, wondering if it was EVER going to stop? I particularly remember watching wave after wave of rain come down the street and the gutters running over their banks. Then again, I do remember being a bit older and going out in the rain to play anyway and trying to throw around a REALLY soaked NERF football...throwing is hard, catching is a soaking experience!
Jim has been out front in what we sometimes call the moat, pumping water around.
He has reported seeing bubbles come up from a hole next to the front porch. Then a very wet skunk ran out.
So, everyone in LA saw double rainbows in the last half hour and it's still dark and raining in South Pas. Grrrr.....
I saw all those double rainbow pics posted to Twitter while it was still pouring over here. Who would have thought mother nature would favor the westside over the San Gabriel Valley?
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