Monthly Archives: September 2009

There’s not a painter in our time who deserves to be, and perhaps is, more beloved by anyone with eyes — by the forward-looking, the traditionalist, the academic, the pop-ist, the longer for an art that takes massive graphic talent … Continue reading →

My step-brother Bart Hibbs has worked for Monrovia-based AeroVironment since the day he graduated from Caltech with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1977. Bart is a genius — a font of many forms of knowledge, an inventor, a person … Continue reading →

Brookside Park south of the Rose Bowl was a favored spring training location for baseball teams before they migrated to duller climes such as those of Arizona and Florida. The Chicago White Sox did the spring thing in Pasadena in … Continue reading →

La Canada filmmaker John Kent Harrison was in Gdansk the week before last for a screening of his “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler,” the Anna Paquin-starring flick about the woman who saved thousands of kids in the Warsaw ghetto … Continue reading →

Trails advocate Paul Ayers forwards this historical photo of the Little Round Top gravesite of Owen Brown, son of the liberator John Brown, at his burial service in the hills above the Meadows neighborhood of Altadena: and after the Station … Continue reading →

This image from the Huntington Library’s collection shows the Pasadena Hunt Club in the Upper Arroyo Seco above JPL sometime in the early 1900s. Just the foundation and a beautiful monument are left. When the fire swept through the mountains … Continue reading →

Johanna Turner has an extraordinary blog, www.cougarmagic.com, with more pictures of bobcats and mountain lions in the mountains just above us than you can shake an ash-laden stick at. It turns out she also has motion-activated cameras hidden in the … Continue reading →

Christopher Nyerges walking through the fallen century plants above Gould Mesa campground Tuesday morning after the fire had passed through the Arroyo Seco. Horses at the Meadows, returned from weekend evacuation. Above Owen Brown’s grave site, above Altadena. The Cooper … Continue reading →

I met up with naturalist Christopher Nyerges this morning before 7 at his home in The Meadows neighborhood of Altadena, which had been evacuated Saturday as the fire swept through on its way east from the mountains above La Canada. … Continue reading →