#southern-california

Los Angeles, California, is where I used to live. The winter blues have made me homesick for it.

Yesterday died with a fiery blast, then faded to grey before the night took full grip. Out back with my eldest son, Devin, I spent about ten minutes capturing the final rays of the sun. Beautiful sunsets

A couple different topics here, and no, the second one is not what you may be thinking. We're having ribs with beans for dinner tonight, so it may be a topic for tomorrow. For today, however, I can't help

This is the spot on these blistering summer days. It's the view here, sitting with my garage door open where the cool breeze blows. Oh NO!! Not The Rolling Blackouts! Whatever will I do? How will I post

Some shots of different clouds I took on the cellphone camera a few days back. There are some dark ones hanging between the buildings here. But some clouds are also light and airy off in the distance.

Taste of Huntington Beach is just around the corner, April 28! This is one of Southern California's premier food and drinks festival so you should attend if you're in the area. It benefits the children's

Hidden Highlands was maybe a little richer but not that different from many of the other small, wealthy and scared enclaves nestled in the hills and valleys around Los Angeles. Walls and gates, guardhouses

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve