Huntington Library

More from Huntington. The Japanese Garden:

 

Also from Huntington. The trellis through the rose garden.

This will most likely be the end of the Huntington Library set.

So long, until we meet again under the California sun.

Koi set

Here's a small set of 3 pics from the Huntington Library again.
This was in their breathtaking water garden. I can't believe they could even have one at all.
It's so dry and unforgiving that maintaining the water garden must be incredibly difficult, if not just straight up expensive. But, I'm glad someone decided that a water garden is a must and it has to be of the highest quality. I don't know the history of this garden but what they've done to the place is just amazing.
One day I'll visit there again. One day...

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Mossman

I found this beautiful specimen of moss at the Botanical gardens of Huntington Library, Los Angeles.
The grounds there is amazingly well kept. Top notch horticulture. One day when I retire as a grey old asian man, I'll become a docent volunteer there. Spending my golden days away in beautiful Pasadena.

in the night

heavy heavy heart.cold and full of shadows like this...

Constitution Park

This was during a walk to my apartment from the GW bridge late one night.
This ominous orange glow really looked like this. The color isn't edited much.
The huge light source is the entrance to the bridge. A massive mecca of artificial lights glowing there every night. The thick fog makes it feel even creepier than it normally is.

Girl...buy me some noodles.

These are my friends Lau, Schmee and renegade noodle.
This isn't the first time Lau has been on my blog. She's so beautifully photogenic.
This was after a rowdy night at a punk rock show in Williamsburg.
I was very drunk and bossy. Deal with it.

A Perfect Circle

This is a big stained glass piece at the Natural History Museum in LA.
Their display of animals were done really nicely and was kept up too. I feel like the one in NYC is certainly superior but they don't clean their displays like in LA.
The museum itself was a bit boring but then again...it's a museum.

Happy 100th-ish Post!

Some time about 6 entries ago I hit my 100th post.
This year will mark a new beginning.
The year of the snake is coming to show us how to shed our old skin and start fresh again.
Thank you.

I Love you.

Sandy

Sandy came to NJ and took the power with her. She smote a tree and with it went the transformer. The deafening distinct boom sounded as the windows flashed in an impossibly white light. Taking away with it, all the lights in the house.

No one dares touch the thing. It's just laying there on the street. I remember a liquid or oil of some sort coming from the transformer itself. The tree fell completely over the street, blocking any traffic. This photo is a couple of days after the storm when a crew came and cut the tree into small pieces and neatly placed them on the side of the street. This was the beginning of 9 days without power or heat.
But at least a roof over my head and everyone safe and sound.

The black and white shows the sawdust beautifully, making a sweet finely detailed texture.
I hope you're all recovered from Sandy. She was a real bitch wasn't she? 

Deepest Depths

This was somewhere in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The southern part, where some call Dark Slope.
It was a cold cold COLD afternoon. You see how beautiful the sky is? Yet, in contrast the buildings below are completely dark and featureless. Only the bold outline of a building is captured.
It's like the sky sucked away its warmth and left it a colorless rigid shape.
Body heat fleeing to join the brisk relentless winds playing with the marble sky.

How can skies this beautiful cast upon us shadows of the deepest depths?

Hermes might say...
Did you forget dude?
As Above. So Below.