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November 30, 2003 Photography













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Note: These are digital photographs I snapped using a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom (telephoto).  Feel free to use them as you will.  If you use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me.  Note: These are thumbnail previews.  To see a full-size high-resolution version of a particular photograph click on the "thumbnail" image.  You will see the full image in a separate window.















On the way to the Inn of the Seventh Ray ... (Click on the link and check out the menu.) 

Go to the Santa Monica Pier.  Then one drives north at the very edge of the sea on Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu, turns right on Topanga Canyon Road, and drives four or five miles up into the Santa Monica mountains - a twisting road, a road with sharp drops into nasty, deep gorges if one is not careful.  Near the top hang a left at the post office and there is the Inn and its gift shop full of Buddha things and crystals and incense, with the howl of the local coyotes in the distance.  The outdoor terrace restaurant is all twinkling lights in the trees and soft Asian "trance" music in the background.  

"We, at the Inn, believe in giving you the purest of Nature's foods, energized as a gift from the sun with a dash of esoteric food knowledge and ancient mystery school wisdom tossed in for your seasoning and pleasure.  It may just raise your body's light vibration and the extra work may cost you a few pennies more, but we believe in the long run, this way of living and eating may prove less expensive.  Your body elemental, that selfless, shy, invisible little fellow who works so hard to keep the oft mistreated human machine going, will jump with joy for your choice of this eating establishment.  He prays and hopes you will return soon to make this a pleasant ritual with each return being a new celebration in honor of taking a small step on the path of good dinning and good doing." 

Okay then.  Stare at the trees.  Have an experience.

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The feng shui at home.  Your basic mums, the more formal daylilies, and the geraniums doing the red Christmas thing on the railing of the balcony...

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From last week's home page, November in Los Angeles brings clear skies.  From my window each morning one can see snow in the San Bernardino Mountains far off in the distance, behind Griffith Park Observatory, now being rebuilt.   Soon the observatory will look as good as it did in Rebel Without a Cause, when James Dean was working so hard with Natalie Wood to save Plato (Sal Mineo) - so long ago.

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