26 Oct

A garden spider at night.



One of the dragons on the Chinatown gate.

25 Oct

A visit to Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.



Actor Jean Hersholt's memorial.



I thought this was interesting.

24 Oct

The Rosslyn, downtown (Main/5th).

23 Oct

Got any extra kibble around?

22 Oct

A leaf on a bench.

21 Oct

A pigeon conference.

20 Oct

A park in Temple City.

19 Oct

Duelling graffiti.

18 Oct

One of the buildings downtown (Hill/6th).

17 Oct

A visitor in my garden.

16 Oct

When the sunlight hits Mau's fur, you can see she's chocolate-colored.

15 Oct

A gigantic moth.

14 Oct

After the rain.

13 Oct

Spooky lives up to his name.

12 Oct

Walking up through Runyon Canyon on the verge of rain.

11 Oct

Hollywood's Rock Walk, where you can see handprints of famous rock musicians.

10 Oct

Cleaning up after my birthday party.

9 Oct

UCLA's Royce Hall.

8 Oct

A night hike in Griffith Park.



A squirrel.

The cats apparently had never seen one, so they suddenly all became puffed up.

7 Oct

A wild parrot feather.

6 Oct

A moth I noticed riding the subway.

5 Oct

El Capitan Theater in Hollywood.

4 Oct

Today the Norton Simon was free.

The above is a Cambodian interpretation of Shiva, circa 925.



Memling's "Christ Blessing," 1425.



French, St. Michael and the Dragon, 13th century.



A colorful Kandinsky.



Picasso's "Woman with a Guitar," 1913.



Emile Bernard's beautiful "Cupboard," 1891.



"Buddha Shakyamuni," Thai, 9th century.



"Winged Figure," Pakistani (ancient Gandhara), 3rd century.



"Jina Ajinanatha and his divine assembly," India, 1062.



"Shiva Lingam with four faces," India, 10th century.



"Shiva as destroyer of three cities," India, c. 925.

I actually really liked the shadow this piece casts.



"Chamunda," Rajasthan, 9th century.



"Worshippers Venerate the Buddha," Pakistan/Gandhara, 2nd century.

I saw it and wondered if da Vinci got his Last Supper idea from something like this.



"Vishnu as the Boar Avatar," India, 3rd century.

3 Oct

A sign for a Chinese restaurant in Venice.

I liked the contrast between the red building and the blue sky.

2 Oct

Another of these L.A. angels, this time in Chinatown. It's decorated with ancient Chinese charaters and English text from Confucius.

1 Oct

In honor of the 60th birthday of the People's Republic of China, I decided to go for a stroll through Chinatown.



More neon.



The Chinatown gold line/train station.



The circle on the ground in the station photo above is actually the I Ching, visible here.



Here are some of my roses, too. They're the chairman's favorite color.

30 Sep

A mural near Olvera Street.

29 Sep

There's a booth at school that I knew was for deaf students, and today I noticed this notice:

This is not a photo booth.

28 Sep

The Time Travel Mart in Echo Park.



TTM's front door. No Morlocks.

27 Sep

Actually, in a first, there's nothing for today...after attempting to fix a problem, it wouldn't turn on, and I thought I'd have to buy a new camera.

The solution was more obvious than I'd like to admit, and now everything's back to normal.