Burnt food

Here's a new fangled cooking style....

Obviously, they do a good job with it!

Brit Week - all along the mall

Clever marketing to park a Black Flat on the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica,  or a few brand new Jaguars in there too.

Or even some English/Welch dancers....with synchronized dance moves and poles to clink against. They had a full war face paint....

The flag alone is a draw....fun adventuring with the out-of-towners!

Even when they come begging...but truth be told, he said they were making a movie, so must be sort of a jokey kind - terribly British.

California sunshine...bikini weather!

Yes, we have the weather......! We have had a few startling earthquakes too.   Other than those, it has been pretty pleasant!

 

While out on my bike, I noticed a neighbor sunning herself quite early in the morning - 9a. Somehow it felt rather surreal, looking at her year-round Halloween decor.

My thougths were of the sculpture George Segal  - but in real time.

http://www.segalfoundation.org/index2.html

Happy Birthday Marion Davis!

Marion Davis was the long-term girlfriend to the newspaper publisher, William Randolph Hearst. She was a MGM actress under contract, and the consummate hostess.

Whether she spent time at Hearst Castle up in Cambria, CA or at her beach house in Santa Monica, she was always up for a making the party fun, and making merry.

Her house was built in the 1930's and has a spectacular view of the water. What remains is the guest house, which is where they were celebrating her birthday. Lots of people dressed up to fit the era, so it was a very fun occasion.

Even a friend of Marion's showed up, a Miss Carlisle, also of MGM fame. She was just a few weeks away from her 100th birthday.

She regaled us with stories of the festivities and what it was like to be on-board a rail car trip with Mr. Hearst and Marion  and the entourage.

We were there to re-imagine life in the world of Marion Davis and all that Hollywood glamour, and what a thrill that must have been!

Happy New Year!

It is a new year, and a propitious start to 2014....

Those who want to seemlessly slip into the next annum, will just plain sleep.

I watched HOURS of HOMELAND....and loved it. Riveting, and an extraordinary drama.

Time to take down the tree.....

and start anew.

Dramatic December skies

I wake up to the amazing sky lights....

and today was especially spectacular!

Hot...hot pink.....and then hues of blue skies come in.

When a vision of downtown Los Angeles, comes shining through. I think of it as the land of Oz, dreamy in its silouette.

And then the rise of the moon....

 

Amazing, isn't it??!

 

November Skies

Have been very intermittently posting here....

even if I  have been taking a few pix in the meantime.

Amazing amount of brilliant skies - whether it is a preponderance of clouds due to a single rain day....

 The same view but with the late afternoon sun hitting the Los Angeles downtown brilliantly.

The morning skies are FLOODED with light, and

Here's an end of  the day shot down at the beach where everyone congregates to watch the sun drop into the horizon.

Orange glows and cooler temps....long shadows make the fall and winter a delight.

It is a showstopping amount of light, going from brilliant to super sublime...how much I enjoy my room with a view!