Bus from Mexico City to Xalapa. Pulque in Cautepec. Buena Vista Social Club. Parque Juárez and environs with Alicia and David. Orozco caricatures at Pinacoteca Diego Rivera. Museo Casa de Xalapa. Lunch with Jose at Mariscos Mexico.
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.
Rain. Birds. Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial, celebrating the Mexican-American War, of which Ulysses S Grant said “I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day, regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation…I do not think there was ever a more wicked war…I thought so at the time…only I had not moral courage enough to resign.” (Source: The Life & Times of Ulysses S. Grant, http://generalgrant.weebly.com/mexican-american-war.html.)Chinatown wth the gang. América Tropical from Main St. Millard Canyon with Larry and Barry. Homelessness in LA. SouthBay WP Meetup.