Three For The Walk Home

... although the walk home is a bit longer--about two blocks longer--when i step off the 794 at Broadway and San Fernando Rd., after dark it's so much more prettier ... and weirder. 

Brighter Days

Flores para tu altar

for Tonantzín

Be Open

Rise Over Run

Slope

... One Month Later

... a pink rose to kiss Scorpio gracefully goodbye ... perhaps.

Home Sweet Shire

... i walk pass this front porch garden on the way to the bus stop on San Fernando Road. This door doesn't face the street, it's alongside the driveway. With so much green foliage from all kinds of plants and flowers, it's easy to miss the house. I imagine walking through this door and Bilbo Baggins will be there to greet me.

Walkways Incorporated: New Directions To Live Fully

[One month later ... ] Something like this happened in July. But, instead of a post with a photo for everyday missed, i think i'll just (re)begin from here. Here. Still here.

Moving on. I guess i've just been tired. With work and all. I also haven't been shooting as much. A part of me feels i've failed this blog's goal to upload an image-a-day ... along with some words. Words. Still there?

Moving on. On this day to love, write, fight fully. Thirsting for words, elements composing a new liquid to drink daily. Cleansing. Growing. Moving.

i

move

on

Cali Cruising

... what better way to end "Cali Week" and head into summer than with a cruise down San Fernando Road in a classic Thunderbird?

California Caretakers

... the uncle of the young man on the ladder, along with his father, have been taking care of the trees in Glendale for over thirty years. I've always wanted to know how the tough, indeed dangerous, dead palms of a palm tree are removed; as well as why some palm trees, an unofficial symbol of Southern California, are neglected--the ones you won't find on postcard.

California Lav

... he wasn't coming at me, per se. He was yelling at a man double parked on the street. I knew i'd be right between the men as this guy approached the man in the car. I clandestinely readied my BlackBerry at the hip ... it reminds me of this shot.

F California

"Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It is more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."

~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

And one more from a brilliant author ...

"We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves."

Somewhere across those outer planes of there, Ray Bradbury is having a beer with Sun Ra ...

Good Morning California!

This week i'll share some recent pix i've taken along the street i live on.

Walk With Me

De la mano [September 2011]

... just wanted to acknowledge all the Fathers, Pops, and Papis and Daddies, and, of course, the Dad-like figures in our lives. Felíz dia del padre! Happy Father's Day! 

[Still scrolling through the archives. This pic of my brother and his son is in honor of those men helping to raise their sons and daughters with an open heart and mind to the infinite possibilities available to them, and us all, when we treat one another with respect, acceptance and compassion.]

Swag White

... we've seen this cat--and his swag--before. I think his choice of an all white outfit, as well as choice of scarf, struts a defiant "Aint no gloom in my June."

Where Flowers Go

"From within the heavens they come
the beautiful flowers, the beautiful songs.
Our longing spoils them,
our expression makes them lose their fragrance."
~Ayocuan of Tecamachalco

Flowers Ahead

"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

With This Ring

Annular Eclipse on Canvas

... at 5:24 PM yesterday i was at the top level of the public parking structure on Orange St and California Ave. I had driven up there with a pair of binoculars, cardboard, plastic tape, utility knife and cutting matt, an 8x10 canvas, and mini easel (I was inspired by this set-up). The annular, or ring, eclipse was occurring. Alone. Together.

The lot security guard was making his rounds and wanted to know what i was up to. We spoke of the eclipse at length and he told of how he was in Mexico City on 11 July 1991 for a total eclipse of the sun. He and his son experienced the eclipse at Teotihuacan. His recollections of the spectacle of that day, and the pictures i took pointing my BlackBerry to the sky, were indeed messages i was supposed to receive.

Check out my peculiar pix of the eclipse here!

And, for your sonic pleasure, a little solar jazz.

Friends In High Places

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