Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - drive west on Sunset to the sea, then north at the very edge of the ocean on Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu, turn right on Topanga Canyon Road. Drive far up into the mountains on a twisting road with sharp drops into nasty, deep gorges if you're is not careful. Then the community of Topanga, about six thousand residents, and home to those who play by their own rules - once the blacklisted in Hollywood, then counterculture types (Neil Young, Jim Morrison), now a mixture of folks who won't ever give up the hippie thing, the rich, the famous and the eccentric. Topanga - an old Shoshonean word that can also be used in reference to the sky or heaven. A sense of the place here -

A note on these photographs:

If you use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me.
These were shot with a Nikon D70 - lens AF-5 Nikor 18-70mm 1:35-4.5G ED

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The links, bottom right, will take you to the weekly, Just Above Sunset, or to the daily web log As Seen from Just Above Sunset. Both provide links to many other photo albums. More detail on Topanga in the October 9 issue of Just Above Sunset.