Pacific Views
Topic: Light and Shadow
Tuesday, December 19 - achingly clear, almost cold windy days and lows at night in the forties, with frost warnings out in the valleys. Winter has come to Los Angeles. The Pacific is a flat mirror in the long afternoon light. This is the view from Mulholland Drive - visibility unlimited. 
Winter Bird
Topic: Light and Shadow
A backlit Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa), with bubbles, Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles, 12 December 2006. It's not much of an avian study, but the composition might give you a sense of winter at the beach.
Hollywood Stars
Topic: Historic Hollywood
This place is crazy. These people are dead, and don't matter - maybe they never did matter. This is a storefront down on Melrose Avenue - Aardvark's. Make of it what you will. 
Glow
Topic: Botanical Studies
The corner of Winnett Place and San Vincente Boulevard, Santa Monica, Friday, December 15, late morning. 
Christmas - Traditional and Non-Traditional
Topic: Seasonal
| Christmas - Traditional and Non-Traditional |
The Guaranty Building for the Guaranty Building and Loan Association, 6331 Hollywood Boulevard, 1923, John C. Austin, architect. Charlie Chaplin and Cecil B. DeMille invested in this building that attracted tenants like gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. Now it is the headquarters of the Church Of Scientology International. Nice Wreath. 
Across the street at Hollywood and Vine, at Iguana Vintage Clothing, an all American Santa - green neon, the flag, the jazzman and the reflection of a palm tree in the glass.
Winter in LA is best thought of as a negative - this, the beach at the end of the north runway at LAX.
