Sitting at the rotating kidney shaped breakfast table in Jeff & Chris' house in Encino. We did get up and out for breakfast yesterday. In fact, we were at Joe's Place a good fifteen minutes before it opened. Nevermind the fact that it opened at least fifteen minutes late. After breakfast, we walked around Avalon for a bit. We went back up to the Pueblo, hung out on the patio, packed and checked out. We walked down to the Casino and hung out in the museum for almost an hour until it was time to go to the heliport. I am enchanted by the Catalina tile. It provides the most interesting, decorative touches all over Avalon.
The helicopter ride back was great, so quick and for whatever reason, not motion sickness inducing. We got the car, got gas and got on the freeway without a hitch.
We stopped at the Getty Center and O.D.'d on people. We went to see the Dorothea Lange exhibit which was quite intriguing. The center itself is something else and Steve and I both preferred the cacti garden to the Center Garden. I keep trying to figure out if Dorothea Lange could have been the photographer who took the pictures of Dad and his brothers in Vaughn. After the Getty, we came back here and hung out. We had delivery from Rosti's and watched Game 3 of the World Series, Anaheim beating San Francisco to go up 2-1.
This morning, Chris and I went for a walk in the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Area overlooking Sepulveda Canyon. We haven't seen much of the sun in the past few days but during our walk, it cleared nicely for a while. It was goot to visit with the sun. The views were cool with hills rolling away beneath us into the mist. Chris was saying that when it's clear, the view is spectacular by which she probably meant long vistas. While I would have loved to have seen that, the views we had were good in their own less dramatic way.
Today, we plan to go to the Santa Monica Pier and then up to Carpinteria, heading east tomorrow.
Started my book club book yesterday afternoon and the first paragraph (first chapter) takes place in Avalon.
1 comment:
The pics are always great. It is an
excellent creative outlet.
You should post one of the photos of your Dad as a little kid in the photos possibly taken by Dorothea Lange. Add any other information you have about it, the year and the place. Hagerman or Vaughn? Maybe someone will be able to help find out if it's a Lange.
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