LB Photowalk

It got nailed.

Tree and sunburst on shoreline

Public service announcement

Sky blue telescope

(Click to embiggen; to the right of the former Spruce Goose dome

you'll see faintly the three red smokestacks of the Queen Mary.)

Beachy lunarscape

This isn't your average Charlie Brown kite-eating tree.

Juxtaposed anachronism

My favorite kind of grass! I want this in my lawn!

Trodden (hydrangea detritus on cobblestone path)

Small-Town in Big-City, California

It's typical of California. We make small enclaves within larger cities, enclaves that make us feel we're in a smaller, less populated, more community oriented place.

Had a delightful visit with an old college friend yesterday (for the first time in at least 10 years). She was out from TX with her kids for Christmas; got to meet her children for the first time -- lovely and amusing! (More on that later.)

In any case, we had lunch in one such small-town-seeming enclave, and it was quite enjoyable. Despite the fact that we had to travel the busy freeways for an hour in each direction to get there, our time in small-town was refreshing. The atmosphere, in conjunction with reminiscing and catching up, were enough to make us forget we were in the big-city sprawl, at least for a while.