Jan 2, 2018
Linda Lack year-end celebration: workshop and Ethiopan lunch. Garden with two identified cacti: Pine cone cactus, Tephrocactus articulatus v. diadematus, and Paper spine cactus, Tephrocactus articulatus var. Papyracanthus. Sammy and Marie in their balcony garden. PST exhibitions at USC Pacific Asian Museum, Pasadena Museum of California Art, California African American Museum, Fowler Musem of Cultural History, Craft and Folk Art Museum and LACMA.
Dec 18, 2017
Museum-ing with Cousin Shirley, including 6 PST exhibitions. Downtown. Westwood Memorial Park. Dinner with Sammy and Marie.
Dec 9, 2017
FOUND IN TRANSLATION, MSF exhibition at Santa Monica Pier. TALKING TO ACTION at Otis College of Art and Design. Garden with birds and bees, cacti, cat, etc. Valeska Soares, ANY MOMENT NOW, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. PORTRAIT OF MEXICO TODAY, 1932, at Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Visit with Xochitl in Pacific Grove. History, culture and environment: Display at Camp Roberts Rest Stop.
Nov 14, 2017
Halloween. Fort MacArthur to see COASTAL/BORDER (PST) at Angels Gate Cultural Center. WordCamp Riverside 2017. PROMETHEUS 2017 (PST) at Pomona College Museum of Art. Charles Tobach photo of my parents and their friend Ethel, East Side Park (circa 1947?). MYTH & MIRAGE (PST) at Riverside Art Museum. Mission Inn. Aunt Marie’s 93 birthday party with guest star Irving the bearded dragon.
Oct 31, 2017
BE THE CHANGE, Los Angeles Protest Photographs 2003-2017, by Cindy Bendat, with Iris at Cal State Dominguez Hills. WordCamp LA, with Brian at Cal State LA. Pier Del Sol, SOSC fundraiser on Santa Monica Pier. The Hammer Museum. The Skirball. Visit with Sammy and Marie. Downtown with Larry and Geri: Union Station, Olvera Street, and Chinatown. LACMA. Garden with flowers, dinosaurs, mammals, etc