A Collage of Los Angeles

View of my friend's house that overlooks the beach in Pacific Palisades, CA

Patrick's Roadhouse, Pacific Palisades, CA.

Grafitti or art? On Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA.

Will Rogers Beach, Pacific Palisades, CA.

Surfboards in vintage surf shop on Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice Beach, CA.

Bike shop on the beach and wall art on Abbot Kinney Blvd.

Bike riding in Venice Beach.

Santa Monica Pier.

Painted lifeguard tower on Zuma Beach in Malibu, CA.

"Two old friends in the blueberry patch"

The title is how my Buela (the lady on the left) described these pictures. A beautiful morning picking blueberries on Gary Ranch in Santa Rosa Valley, CA.

“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.” - Dalai Lama

You ought to have seen what I saw on my way

To the village, through Mortenson's pasture to-day:

Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb,

Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum

In the cavernous pail of the first one to come!

And all ripe together, not some of them green

And some of them ripe! You ought to have seen!

- excerpt from "Blueberries" by Robert Frost

Black Butte/Camp Sherman

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."

-Henry David Thoreau

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”

-Mary Oliver

In Guernee, Illinois, it is illegal for women weighing more than 200 pounds to ride horses in shorts

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's a different world over here on the east side of the Oregon Cascades..."

-Metolius River Association

At the End of Wendy Drive

Another hike in the Santa Monica Mountains. To reach the trail head you have to drive all the way up Wendy Drive in Newbury Park, CA.

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look once in awhile, you could miss it.” - Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Provincetown

Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

Boathouses

Boathouses at the wharf by Elephant Rock Beach, Westport, MA.

"An Eastern Ballad"

I speak of love that comes to mind:

The moon is faithful, although blind;

She moves in thought she cannot speak.

Perfect care has made her bleak.

I never dreamed the sea so deep,

The earth so dark; so long my sleep,

I have become another child.

I wake to see the world go wild.

Allen Ginsberg