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sleepy
- Current Music:Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet
Orange honeysuckle and bougainvillea explosion!
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amused
...in the first apartment I ever had by myself.
Wow, is that a shitty looking tree. I said so then, and I say so now. XD
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chipper
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content
Bougainvillea...the joy and bane of the backyard. So beautiful, but those thorns...oy.
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awake
Don't ask me how she can sleep amid such a noisy assortment of colors! :) Poor mistreated bug!
Long Beach produced both me and also gangsta rap, so that should tell you generally what kind of place we're talking about here. It is, however, also a very interesting place if you are a fan of architecture, which I kind of am. So I thought I'd share some of my photos from a pleasant day of wandering thereabout. Long Beach was nearly taken out completely by earthquakes in 1933 and 1949, so the older buildings are all real survivors.
Here's a few sights on Ocean Blvd, the main east-west thoroughfare that parallels, you guessed it, the ocean.
Galaxy Towers. Can't you feel the vintage "oh so modern" vibe?
Cherry blossoms! Cheaper than a trip to DC!
Visitors from the Great White North...
Great blue heron...there's a pair that lives in the park. So elegant...and eerily like dinosaurs somehow.
Some summers, this is nothing but a bed of cracked mud. But so far so good.
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full
It's called..."Bad Dog." It occasionally sprays yellow paint from the appropriate orifice onto the museum.
The dog is a boy.
We now leave the rarefied world of art and return you to whatever low-brow activity you were engaged in.
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