My favorite hike takes me through the chaparral-covered hills of Griffith Park but maintains a view (smog allowing) of downtown Los Angeles in the valley below. The weather and the seasons change but from this distance the city looks constant.
A fall afternoon.
Moonset at sunrise.
Early spring wildflowers.
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Attempted to snap this photo of my teen son during a Mom don’t take my picture phase. This phase lasted longer than most childhood phases, but in retrospect they were all quite fleeting.
For many years, whenever I aimed a camera at my daughter, her hand whipped up in front of the lens. My son recently pointed out that, had I saved all those shots, we would have a complete chronicle of the palm of her hand as it matured from elementary school to college.
Share dinner with me – okay. But don’t take my picture!
Typical photo of my daughter.
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Took these photos in September, 2012, in the Bowery in Manhattan. Wonder if this building still looks like this?
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Engine at the beach. What are the stories it could tell?
Just outside the surf, East Beach, Santa Barbara, CA
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New York City subway ceiling. What do you see? I see a baby sea monster menacing Greenland.
View from the up escalator, A line at 96th street, NYC.
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
View from the rooftop bar, Beekman Tower Hotel, Manhattan, looking across the East River to Queens. Light in foreground is the reflection of a candle in the bar.
Queens, New York, September 2012.
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Yet another reason to be buried at sea. (Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Billboard outside Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
Clear, succinct, easy to read. One problem: I’ve only got one lane to start with.
Permission to cross center line?
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
My son does some great screen printing. He made this t-shirt as a class project. I wish he would make me one! Or at least give me one of the stickers. (Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Would you wear this t-shirt? (I would.)
I’m sorry I was late for work the day I spotted this bumper sticker. Might have liked to stick around to meet the owner. Perhaps Bop the mean cat should pose this question to herself. (Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Bumper sticker parked outside neighborhood Starbuck’s.
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