Stars and such – July 4 fireworks and epiphyllum blooms. EastLos on the Gold Line, with anti-Trump demonstrators and Anime Convention attendees. Art at Union Station. Metropolitan Detention Center. Little Tokyo/Arts District. Mariachi Plaza with BJ. Pozole at Yeya’s. Lucha Reyes statue. Perched humming bird. Garden with cactus flowers, cherry tomatoes, pepper. Gish Bac with Camille and BJ.
Year’s first night-blooming cereus blooms. More showy flowers, Whitey Ford and Gnome Chomsky, bffs. Vitis with Sammy and Marie. Frida Kahlo at MOLLA. About town.
WordCamp Orange County 2017 with Cesar, Robert, Pablo, Verious and a couple of hundred other WordPress super heroes. Highlights included Devi meetup, Rachel Cherry on web accessibility and Verious Smith’s workshop on theme setup.
Garden with blooming wisteria, raccoon raiders and more. Anza-Borrego with friends to see wildflowers, wrought iron bestiary and more. La Cienega bio-wall. My compost system.
Garden springs to life after great rainy season. Black History Month display at Carson Regional Library. Right Livelihood flow chart from a brainstorming session with Gayle and Rosalie, circa. 1998. Rosalie! Thanks for saving this! (Damn! I heard on NPR that exclamation points are bad, yet here I go again!) Cliff plays his sax; Riley looks up to him. Little Ethiopia. Sammy and Marie’s patio garden. Wildflowers at Rio de Los Angeles State Park. Downtown landmarks, solar-powered street lights (?). “A World of Difference,” Special Olympics of Southern California fundraiser at the Hyatt Long Beach. Hot Sauce, and other cellphone pix.